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provident than the colored people had in still larger numbers quartered themselves upon the Government. Refugees and Freedmen from Eastern Arkansas had crowded Memphis. Slaveholding Kentucky's Colored population had swarmed southward into free Tennessee. The loyalty of East Tenn. had afforded shelter to the fugitives from Virginia and North Carolina. Seven surrounding states had most liberally contributed dependent population to Tennessee. These contributions added to Tennessee's own made up the large family here, which added to the number in Camps in Kentucky and Northern Alabama constituted the number set forth in the foregoing figures.

During the month of July rations were issued to

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