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of this section if possible which I know I can if there were only Troops here to sustain me.  The freedmen are disturbed and alarmed so much in this county that they are congregating in this place and shifting about from point to point. and in other counties adjoining I learn the blacks are not free to make such contracts as they may not elect: neither are they allowed to leave the plantations to seek employment elsewhere.

An Officer of the 5th U.S. Cavalry [[strikethrough]] who [[/strikethrough]] who has been on a tour throug some fifteen Counties furnished me information as to the condition of the freedmen as learned from both whites and blacks. "says the freedmen are under the worst form of servitude without any rights or priviledges whatever".

I am anxious to have the authorities of the Government sustained here and the interes the freedmen protected And also to get away from here as gracefully as possible with the satisfaction of having done my whole duty for the for the interest of all. To leave here under the present state of affairs would be providing the protection of the freedmen by the Government a perfect force &c.