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Office Bureau Refugees, &c &c 
Jasper Tennessee, March 24, 1866

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

Our mail matter passes through the hands of rebels and apostate Union men, and for this reason I some times wait for a safe private conveyance to Nickajack or Bridgeport of my letters to you: and now, as I have a chance to send my hand all the way to Nashville, some mail matter, I avail my self of the opportunity of so doing. Mr. Jacob H Burroughs, and Mr D.S. Freeman will be the bearer of this. Mr Burroughs is the wounded soldier I speak of in some of the letters. he is now the bearer of to you, and can tell you all about the shooting. It was at the house of Mr Freeman that George Worley was murdered by the notorious rebel Bushwhacker, Biles Hanson, who is now running at large, or I understand. Touching this foul murder, talk with Mr Freeman. Talk with the man about our situation here. They can tell you some things, I will tell you more when I shall come to answer your confidential letter, which I aim to commence in a few days.

Can you give me answers to former unanswered letters, by the hands of these two men? If you really know the magnitude, boldness, and multifariousness of crime here, to say nothing of its hidden form, you would tremble to know that God is just!  Tell our friends in the north they must save us, or we sink. So it possible that's one man can [[strikethrough]] carry them to death at a multitude of fists upon a string? [[/strikethrough]] rule so larger and free a nation as this? Must Freedom die at last, and Slavery revive upon its ruins! God, forbid it!! But why this wish to a stranger - one I never saw? Your confidential letter seems to sanction it, or I would not. Death its self