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How I was Served

I was a private in company K, of the 13th United States Colored Infantry, and my brother Nelson Terrell was a private in Company C of the same regiment, and we were honorably discharged, and on the 15th of January, 1866, myself and brother gave our discharge to our Lieutenant Colonel, Theodore Tournicht of Nashville who fixed up our papers and undertook to obtain bounty, and gave us at the same time receipts, which I now have. Our claims were allowed by the 2nd Auditor on the 9th of April, 1867, for $214 and some cents each, as per certificates Nos. 296559 and 297882, and at that time transferred to the officers of the Freedman's Bureau, who in place of sending our claims to Col. Tournicht, our Attorney sent them to D.W. Glassie of Nashville, and we have never been paid. Soon after putting in our claims, with our Colonel we both left Nashville, my brother for Cairo, (where he died within a month) and myself for Kentucky where I have resided ever since. And in May 1870, I went to Nashville for the first time expecting to get my money, and called upon mu Colonel who told me our money had come and was sent to D.W. Glassie by the Freedman's Bureau, and he Glassie pretended he had paid me and my brother. I told him that it could not be for if I ever had come to Nashville after my money I would have called on my Colonel whose receipts I held and the only man in Nashville who knew me, that he could not have paid my brother as he died long before his claim was allowed. Mr. Glassie is not so liberal as Col. Runkel, McMullen and Armstrong-- they only take part. Under this state of facts I am advised to hold the Freedman's Bureau responsible. I am now living adjacent to Hopkinsville, Ky. Samuel Terrell. 
July 10th, 1871