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from exposure and hunger among the whites, and blacks, and that there will be much more before the close of the year unless the people learn to eat cotton. 
The state or general government should pass a law requiring one half of the land cultivated to be planted in corn. 
There are, among the suffering people here, many to whom subsistence should be issued at once. 
I think supplies would be best and most impartially distributed by myself. 
Every day people come to me with starvation depicted in their faces, and I am obliged to send them away empty handed. If it is possible to furnish even corn meal to them it should be done at once. Blanks on which to issue rations have been on hand for ten days, but no rations. 
I am Colonel
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt. 
O.H. Howard
Bvt. Lt. Col. Agent.