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Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
Sub. Dist. of Memphis
Sub. Asst. Commr's Office
Memphis Tenn. Sept 5th 1867

Lieut. G
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 R.F. and A.L. in this Sub. Dist. for the month of August 1867.

Mr J. J. Holloway in charge of the counties of Fayette and Hardin reports that the freed people are working well and have made pretty good crops- a plenty for all and some to spare. There has been during the month some few applications for rations by destitute persons, but their friends and neighbors have assisted the more unfortunate. The feeling against the colored people, instead of improving, is much worse now than before the election; there is a deep and lasting ill feeling with every disloyal person against the colored man who voted the Radical ticket- great many declared that no Brownlow negro shall work their land another year. Further safeguards must be thrown around the colored people to insure them their rights as freed people. There have been but few split ups between the employer and employees this year." Mr. Holloway reports but one outrage:

Transcription Notes:
Corrections. It's Brownlow, not brownlover. Brownlow was a governor in Tenn. And S.W. Groesbeck