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Consolidated Monthly Report of Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub. District for the Month of October 1866
Lt. Col. Fred S. Palmer Chief Superintendent

[[18 Columned Table]]
| No | Superintendent | County | Issued Rations | Issued Clothing | Issued Medicine | No of contacts made | No of laborers | Rate per month  | No of fines | No of forfeitures | No of minors apprenticed | No of teachers | No of scholars | No of schools | No of outrages committed by whites upon blacks | No of arrests made for outrages committed upon blacks by whites | Remarks of County Superintendents |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Lt. Col. F. S. Palmer | Shelby | 666 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 10 | 275 | 5 | 2 |   | Tony Breckenridge (Col'd) murdered by parties unknown near Forrest Hill Station Oct. 21st 1866. Peter Farrow (Col'd) whipped by his employer Sam'l Farrow Oct 5th 1866 |

| 2 | J. J. Holloway | Fayette |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No complaints made this month, everything going on smoothly |

| 3 | S. H. Melcher | Fayette |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 |   | George Washington (Col'd) shot by David Brooks Oct 11th 1866 and dangerously wounded |

| 4 | J. R. Bledsoe | Tipton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 5 | H. G. Hester | Weakley |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  
 |   |   |   | 1 |   | No reports received |

| 6 | Andrew. Neely | Carroll |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   | Things are going along very well; condition of affairs improving |

| 7 | G. E. Green | Madison |   |   |   | 1 | 2 | 112 |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The majority of freedmen who have worked under contracts approved by the Bureau have done well this season |

| 8 | J. D. Ussery | Hardiman |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   | Employers settling fairly with the freedmen; no trouble experienced |

| 9 | R. C. Scott. | Haywood |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 60 | 1 |   |   | Everything getting along quietly, Crops are unusually short, fears the poor and helpless will suffer this winter |

| 10 |   | Gibson |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | Freedmen doing very well; no difficulties reported |

| 11 | W. C. McConnico | Lauderdale |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 12 | Fielding Hurst | McNairy |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | The disposition of the citizens especially of the rebel stripe is much more kind than it was last month, the freedmen are being treated well |

| 13 | R. P. Haley | Benton |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 14 | W. B. Tipton | Dyer  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | One half of the freedmen are doing but little good for themselves or anyone else. |

| 15 | S. Howard | Henderson  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 16 | Thos. Maxwell | Hardin |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | 1 | 25 | 1 |   |   | The whites are not disposed to enter into written contracts with the freedmen Rebels and Copperheads pay no attention to the Bureau |

| 17 | J. H. Brown | Henry |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 18 | J. J. Steagald | Decatur  |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |  |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

| 19 | W. H. White | Obion |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | No reports received |

|   |   |   | 666 |   |   | 1 | 2 | 112 |   |   |   | 12 | 360 | 7 | 3 |   |   |

Station Memphis Tenn
Date November 14th 1866.

Fred. S. Palmer
Lt. Col. 6th. V.R.C and Chief Sup't

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table re-formated per SI instructions