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Lexington
Ogelthorpe Co. Ga.
To Brig Gen D. Tillson Decr 9th 1865

Sir - The ((?)) has rendered of [ineligible] that I have been appointed as the agent or one of the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau in the County-but I have rec'd no official notice of the fact. I am daily applied to by both whites & blacks and I as a matter of course I am compelled to turn them off without any satisfaction. Will you be pleased to give me some information promptly as to the facts in the case & thus enable me to relieve the people, and asking that is really the state of the case? I am also advised by Col. B.T. Hendersan who has declined to act that it is your design to appoint numerous agents in this county, each to ac t independently of the other-this I conceive to be a plan which cannot but result in evil to all concerned. There can be no concert of action nor can there be unanimity in the approval of contracts while the multidinous division of the small fees allowed each agent will not secure reliable need to act as such. Two agents is sufficient in my opinion who can act in concert and who while one is held strictly responsible, he can hold the other responsible to him. In this connection I will suggest the name of Mr. Benjamin A. Grisham as an associate with myself in the labors of the agency. Messrs. Willingham & Matthews, members of the Georgia Convention will recommend him as they have already done the same thing for myself. Mr. G & myself we are satisfied