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Huntsville June 26th 1866

Genl. J. B. Kiddoo

Dear Sir: I am a small farmer three miles N.W. from Huntsville. I contracted with 12 freedmen, in good faith, to farm with me. The most of them violate the contract every week and pay no respect whatever to their obligations. I have done my best, by every means in my power and have failed. I shall probably make a half crop of Corn and not one third a crop of Cotton and the most of the latter still in the first grass. One man, by name Billy & his wife left here this morning for this reason After having absented himself for two days without permission from or notice to me, returned, when I asked him to acknowledge his wrong and promise in future to comply with his contract, he refused to do so and left as I made that the condition of his remaining.— I have been advised that I have done all that Law and Equity require. I wish the case investigated and Justice done between the man and me. My Contract is regularly and fairly drawn, on terms as favorable to the Freedmen as any I know of. There being no agent here, it has not been approved.