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Late St. Joseph Tensas Parish La
Dec. 25th 1865

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his Excellency Gov. J. Madison Wells
of Louisiana

My dear Sir

I have not the honor or pleasure of your acquaintance personally, but your high official position will I presume excuse this liberty.

I write simply to ask in behalf of many of our Citizens, why it is the negroes in this part of the State are under the control of the Freedmen's Bureau of Mississippi instead of Louisiana? - and if there is no good reason for this, that you will please use your influence to have them placed at once under this department of our State.  We transact it would be much more convenient for us to communicate with the department there, that at Vicksburg, and too we frequently find the orders from the Bureau of Miss. very different from those of Louisiana, which creates confusion.-  You will then Sir oblige many of our Citizens if you get this corrected [[strikethrough]] if such [[/strikethrough]] if not incompatible with the most good.

Yours with great Respect
A.T. Bowie