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Bureau R.F. & A.L. A.S.A. Comr Office Trenton Tenn. Sept 11th 1867 Capt. Kendrick Act. Sub. Asst. Comr. Memphis Tenn. Captain I have the honor to report that I proceeded to Jackson Tenn. in compliance with instructions from your office dated Sept. 2nd 67. and spent one day in the City. and one in the country. with a view to obtaining all the information I could as to the present condition of the freedmen in Madison County. I made extensive inquiries of both black and white. and I take pleasure in reporting that many of the rumors afloat as to the cruel treatment of the freedmen are exagerated. I visited the Camp of the State Guards, and made inquiries as to the No. of freedmen who had gone to their Camp "covered with blood" &c, and one was all that I could hear of. and he had been behaving badly while under the influence of liquor, and had a fight with a white man. also under the same influence. The case as it was represented to me by the Militia was horrible indeed. I learned that the parties had been tried before over