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| WHEN RECEIVED. | NAME OF WRITER. | DATE AND PURPORT OF LETTER. |
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| Sept 15 1865 #89 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss Sept 4 1865. Transmitting G.O. #7 issued by him |

| June 30 1865 #90 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss. June 22 1865. Acknowledging receipt of S.O. 268 assigning him to duty as Asst Comr. |

| July 5 1865 #91 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss June 27/65. Requests Circular No 1 and 4 Current Series from Freedmens Bureau |

| July 5 1865 #92 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss June 29 1865. Acknowledging receipt of Circular, Books &c from Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, &c. |

| Aug 9 1865 #93 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss July 23 1865. Statement of the number of teachers in the District Mississippi |

| Aug 2 1965 #94 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss. July 23 1865. States reasons why he has not removed his office from Vicksburg to Natchez | 

| Aug 5 1865 #95 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss July 24 1865. States that he has no knowledge of the report relative to amt of action on his part, forwarded by Col Fisk's office and Genl Davidson and gives a summary statement of resent condition of Bureau in Mississippi. |  

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| Aug 8 1865 #96 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss July 29 1865. Transmits copies of forms prepared by him for solemnizing marriage among freedmen for inspection and approval. | 

| Aug 5 1865 #97 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss July 31 1865. Respecting Memorial of July 17 1865, referred to him. Says - that provisions in the county are cheap and that the reports of imminent and wide spread distress memoralized are not credible, that the freedmen when well treated generally stay on plantations when they can work and be fed and that many arrangements are being made for the destitute ones, that the white people are fewer in number than the blacks and quite as able to work for themselves, and ought not to suffer if their work that they are willing and anxious to get all they can from the U.S. Government - should not recommend the purchase of corn by the Gov't for their use. Will promptly investigate these things. |

| Aug 15 1865 #98 * | Thomas Samuel Col Asst. Comr. File | Vicksburg Miss. Aug 5 1865. States that during the war many refugees were shipped North and many supported by Refugee House, that this has about ceased now, that the Southerners as a class are glad to have the refugees among them to counter-balance the negroes, that each post commandant is feeding some white persons, that probably more whites than blacks have been fed by the Government that this will soon cease and that hereafter the State should support its own poor &c &c. |

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