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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Nor. Alabama.
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville Tenn Dec 29th 1865

My Dear General
I have thrown out my skirmishes and hope to engage Kentucky in a good fight for the right, and conquer them with fair dealing, and kind but earnest words. I have visited Frankfort and had a very pleasant interview with Gov Bramlette who most cordially approved of my Circular and "address to the Freedmen". He thought it not best to give me an official endorsement, as he desires to carry measures of justice through the Legislature when it re-convenes after the holy days. he has already prepared an admirable special communication to his Assembly, in which he implores them to delay not in providing