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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE AGENT FOR SPALDING COUNT,
Griffin, Ga., Feby 8, 1866

[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Genl. Davis Tillson:

Your communication of the 5th inst is received, and the several answers to my inquiries are understood.

In answer to your request to know the "name and address of the gentleman who told me that Col. Curkendall was engaged in getting hands for Cuba," I have to report  Mr. James A Logan, now Telegraph operator, and Express agent at this place.  Mr. Logan began an unwarranted assault upon the Freedman's Bureau, saying he could manage his own business without any Bureau agent prying into the privacy of his family affairs, and then told me that the whole thing was a "nigger" stealing concern, as he was told so by Col. Kirkendall

Transcription Notes:
Kirkendall spelled two different ways in this same paragraph.