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Dalton Ga June 1866

Brvt Maj Genl D Tillson
Augusta Ga

Yours of the 30th ult is to hand  I send you a suplementry list of the destitute of this County  I sent you a list the 23 ult  I have not heard from it  I think I have very nearly all the destitute of both races in Whitfield County

Unless aid comes very soon nearly all these colored people who have rented lands will fail to make there crops  I am furnshing from my own means 8 labors with corn not charging any interest  they are to pay me this fall  I am doing it to save there crops for them  if they have to pay for food from these crops it will take all they make  I will send immediately to those Counties named. Murray County has an Agent  he has sent forward his report I learn

Will there be allowed no compensation but the Expens for all the trouble of distributing the charity of the government to the poor  I shall have to pay drayage & storage

Transcription Notes:
Drayage is the transport of goods over a short distance