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feel that my hope is not well founded; for I have been with this people over forty years - nearly all the time. So for as the change of sentiment is concerned, the rebel cause is stronger now than it was at Lee's surrender. Union men have become apostatized for the sake of gain, or something else.

I know that I cannot proceed with the affairs of the Bureau without a military post here. After the array of 80 or 100 for two or three days, thirty retained may be enough. Keep me posted with regard to changes in the laws of Congress relative to the Bureau, should any take place.

I have not been able to procure the Presidents amnesty Proclamation of May 29th 1865, and therefore know not who are excluded from the length of it. Can you send me one? I will anxiously await an answer to my communication of a few days ago. If I did not carefully mail both original and copy together, [[strikethrough]] I was [[strikethrough]] some one entered my office last night by some means and secured the copy. I sent the report by private conveyance to Hickory Oak, or Shellmound, as it is some times called; and hope I mailed the copy with it. If I did will you inform me of it in your next letter to me?  I keep no copy of this; and but seldom of any thing I write.

Very truly yours
Mr. A. Sorrill
S BR. F & AL.

To Brevet Major Gen C.B.Fisk
Nashville, Tenn.