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Sub Asst Commr Bureau R.F.& A.L. 
State of Texas 
Centreville Leon County - April 16th 1867 

1st Lieut J.T. Kirkman 
26 U.S. Inftry. & A.A. Genl. 
Galveston Texas 
District of Texas 

Sir
In obedience to instructions received from you I proceeded to Crockett. Houston County Texas and established Mr. Jacobs in his Office.

I also investigated the cause referred to me, against the Chief Justice of Houston County, W. Odell, in regard to apprenticing Freedman Gid Brown, and forcing the same to leave his work and place and go with his newly appointed master.

The Freedman Gid Brown was represented to you as a man in stature 17 years of age and late a soldier in the U.S. Service by one I.N. Gonor of Crockett Houston Co Texas upon investigation I had Freedman Gid Brown brought before me.  I found Gid Brown to be an intelligent boy about 13 years old, to have asked him if he had been a US. Soldier would have been ridiculous he stated to me that he some 3 or 4 years Since, at one time was in a camp of U.S. Soldiers in company with his mother at Vicksburg, Miss that he was captured at Milicans [[Milliken's]] Bend with other Negroes farming on a place belonging to one Marshal Smith, and was brought from there to Texas by Mr. Bruton the boy further stated that he was apprenticed to Mr. Bruton by the Chief Justice of Houston County, and that he is treated well, and well pleased with his home

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Transcription Notes:
I think Gid is short for Gideon Supporting this supply route were other depots and camps on the Louisiana side of the Mississippi near Young’s Point and Milliken’s Bend. At the latter, several newly-recruited black regiments were posted to defend the facilities.