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Columbia, Texas October 15th 1867.

Sir
It is my painful duty to announce the death of  Mr. P. F. Duggan late Asst Commr of the Freedmen's Bureau at this place. He had gone to the plantation of Mr John Sweeney on Chance's Prairie to apportion the crop among the freedmen where he was seized on the 10th with an attack of congestion of the stomach and expired on the afternoon of the 13th. Owing to the heavy rains which made the streams impassible it was impossible to obtain a physician till the third day, but every attention was paid him by Mr Sweeney's family Mr. Duggan sent for me and I was with him when he died and at his request have taken charge of his effects and of the papers of the Bureau; the latter I will turn over to Mr. Duggans successor on his arrival. 

It is very important that an agent be sent to this place as soon as possible as the corn crop is still to be divided and unless this be superintended by an agent of the Bureau there will be serious trouble on many plantations. Owing to the smallness of the crop made both planters and laborers are dissatisfied, and each party is anxious to get as much of the

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