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I am a Baptist Minister; have resided in this Country for 24 years; have been a pastor of the Baptist Church for 25 years: have been a Union Man through the Late Rebellion.

On account of the late war nearly all the Counties of North Georgia have been desolated Stock has been taken and appropriated to Army purposes; provisions of all 
sorts have been squandered and the country deprived of its available resources and hence at the close of the war the people generally were without a currency an nothing to dispose of whereby they could obtain the necessary means to purchase the common necessaries of life shifted from the Northern States of the Union hence, the suffering compared with the luxurious living of the people before the late Rebellion has been intense, many yea, hundreds have lived and worked hard on half rations of bread alone. Many instances
have come under my own personal observation where the Heads of Families have endeavored to dispose of their bed-clothing in order to obtain bread for their children. Many Families have worked hard in corn fields and subsisted alone on Irish potatoes.

I have issued during The Month of July to the destitute of Whitfield County 25.000 lbs of Rations