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Bureau R.F. & A. Lands.
Sub-Dist. of Memphis
Sub-Asst. Comrs Office
Memphis Tenn. Aug 5th 1867

Lieut S.W. Groesbeck
A.A.A. Genl
Nashville Tenn.

Lieutenant:

I have the honor to submit the following report of the condition of the affairs of the Bureau in this Sub-District during the month of July 1867:

Mr. Holloway in charge of the counties of Fayette and Hardiman in his report states, "I have travelled a good deal through my district during the month of July, and from my observation and all the information I can attain, which is very general from all sections, the prospects for a good crop of Corn and Cotton and all other crops growing up to the 27th and 28th, were very good, at which time there was the most peaceful flood of rain ever before known, which has done an immense damage to all bottom and low land crops, destroying at least one third of the crops by overflow. The destruction to fences is very great - many fields being left without a fence around them. The freedmen have gone