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Office Bureau Refugees, &c &c
Jasper, Tenn March 22nd 1866.
Major Genl CB Fisk, Asst Comm &c Nashville, Tennessee

As I have not forwarded to you my letter of two days ago, I will inform you that a Freedman came to me yesterday for relief. In 1863, Robbin Bune, of this county, was away from home in the rebel army; and as Genl Rosekrans drove Bragg from this section, said Bune's wife abandoned her home, and went South, leaving this Freedman in the possession of it; telling him he was welcome to make what he could on the place until the family returned. The Freedman made a small crop that year, and in the Autumn of that year, Mrs Bune and others of the family returned, and wanted to buy the crop if she could get the money to pay for it, but failed to get the money. In the following [[?]] the Freedman went and got a part of the corn, less than thirty bushels, of the corn he had made; soon after which he was taken with a States warrant by John S Roulston, constable, before E M Roulston, Magistrate, who fined the Freedman five dollars, and gave judgment for seven dollars costs, making in all Twelve dollars.

This E M Roulston is the man who has petitioned you directly or indirectly, to turn me out and put him in as agent of the Bureau here! These Roulstons are brothers - and Robbin Bune is a near relative of them. The Roulstons, Bunes, & Kellys, are three of the most numerous, wealthy, and influential families in the county; and I believe nearly every one of them are against the Freedman's Bureau. Here then we see John S Roulston, constable, E M Roulston, magistrate, and Robbin Bune a near relative and rebel soldier, and witnesses, relatives of theirs, conspire to treat this poor Freedman out of the part of the fruits of his labor, seven dollars of which goes into their own pockets! I cannot believe you will