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Consolidated Monthly Report of Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the Memphis Sub-District for the Month of December 1866 Capt. F.M.H. Kendrick Act'g 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 by whites upon blacks | Remarks of County Superintendents | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | Capt. F.M.H. Kendrick | Shelby | 1302 | | | 9 | 32 | interest in crop | | | | 15 | 700 | 9 | | | Many cases of defrauding the freedmen of their wages for the year 1866. Several cases of this kind have already been settled before the civil courts | | 2 | J. J. Holloway | Fayette | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is great destitution amongst the freedmen, assistance is needed from some quarter - many complaints from freedmen that they cannot collect their wages - many have disposed of their crops and left without settlement | | 3 | S. H. Melcher | Fayette | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1 | | Ben Moore shot at several times by Chas. Falls - Falls arrested & bound in $1000. Jim Branch shot in the neck by A.P. Kittis, disch'd Union soldier, arrested but afterwards escaped. V. Stafford beat a freedman with a billet of wood - nothing done | | 4 | J. R. Bledsoe | Tipton | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 5 | H. G. Hester | Weakley | | | | 6 | 6 | $7 | | | | | | | | | Freedmen do not feel disposed to make contracts before the Bureau for 1867, bit make them upon their own responsibility. All are being promptly paid their wages for this year | | 6 | Andrew H Neely | Carroll | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 7 | G. E. Green | Madison | | | | 10 | 34 | interest in crop & $12 | | | | | | | | 1 | | A black boy aged 12 years clubbed to death by one Wash Exum - Magistrate slow to give the warrant, Sherriff refused to make the arrest - two days after Exum left the County. No Civil law here to protect Northern, Union or freed people | | 8 | J. D. Ussery | Hardiman | | | | 20 | 41 | ⅓ to ½ crop | | | | | | | | | Thinks the Civil Courts disposed to give the freedpeople justice. Some little difficulty in settling for last years work though both parties seem willing to leave it to me to settle. There is a little destitution amongst the freedpeople | | 9 | R. C. Scott. | Haywood | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 10 | Jospeh A. Blackmore | Gibson | | | | 14 | 27 | $12.50 men $7 women | | | | | | | | | The freedmen are doing well as far I have learned, but at present feel little disposed to make contracts for the coming year - | | 11 | W. C. McConnico | Lauderdale | | | | 15 | 36 | ½ crop | | | | | | | | | The Civil Authorities pay no attention to the freedpeople - some are slow making contracts - many old and disabled are suffering for food & Clothing | | 12 | Fielding Hurst | McNairy | | | | 3 | 14 | Interest in crop | | | | | | | | | Nothing new to report bit respectfully urge the necessity of extending some aid to the destitute freedpeople of my district | | 13 | R. P. Haley | Benton | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 14 | | Dyer | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 15 | Sam'l Howard | Henderson | | | | 6 | 22 | $12.50 | | | | | | | | | But few contracts being made as the freedmen refuse standing wages, preferring an interest in the crop - the farmers prefer giving them wages | | 16 | Thos. Maxwell | Hardin | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 17 | J. H. Brown | Henry | | | | 3 | 3 | $12 50/100 | | | | 4 | | | | | Many of the people are opposed to the Bureau and advise the freedmen to keep away - cannot get the wages due the freedmen for the year 1865 and can get no officer to do it on account of this feeling - it cannot be done by civil persons | | 18 | Houston Roberts | Decatur | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No report received | | 19 | W. H. White | Obion | | | | 1 | 5 | $ 15 | | | | | | | | | The Civil Authorities are disposed to give justice to the freedmen but the state of feeling of the community prevents and also prevents me from exercising the duties of my office | | | Total | | 1302 | | | 87 | 220 | | | | 4 | 16 | 713 | 10 | 4 | 2 | | Memphis Tenn Jan 10th 1867. F.M.H. Kendrick Capt and Actg Chief Sup't
