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of that Labour our stricken & desolate country can never rise out of the ashes.
Capt B. has been in charge of Posts since leave last in southern Geo. no one has even yet surmised that he has ever made a dollar of his legitimate salary - whether guilty or innocent we have no means of judging reports are common when it is believed much money has been made by speculating officials & privates, the time will come when each mans record will be known. I myself know nothing nor am I acquainted with any other U S Officer

May I be allowed to make a suggestion to the Bureau? Thousands of negroes have gone into cities Especially Savannah & thousands more will go there is there no way to stop this before they [[?]] these very negroes a plenty, to act as servants & cultivate the soil of Chatham County? it is true they are free but the Bureau is their guardian "and the judge" of what is best for them "all the best cotton land lies in this section & fully one half of the labourers whose former owners refugeed here yes 2/3 as & have bought lands have gone to Savannah how can they live Educate their children there is a large city the proper place to educate & teach moral precepts to their children you know it is not. I hope you will consider this & remember that not one in 20 of the negro men who were here in June last are now in Savannah, how can we with women perform the heavy work the men generally think they must be last to go & work where they please