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to the Bureau all such family as cannot get employ, & I will help them to get employ.

Can I send them to Atlanta?

Please give me an order to do what is best for these human beings & for myself & for the Government.

I can refer you to General Evans JB & JW Walker, B H Warren, Drs Barry & Ballie they all know me well & my hitherto management. I have had no difficulty with my freedmen during this whole year, or during the war.

Genrl Slocom with the 14th & 20th Corps passed over my plantation & took 50 mules & horses, & 350 Gallons Syrup, with corn, Hogs hogs, & cattle, But the the Negroes hung on to their homesteads & must now get them off or we will all starve together.

your most obdnt
John B Walker