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Office Sub Assistant Commissioner Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner, BUREAU OF R.F. & A.L., Sherman Feb 28th 1867. J.T. Kirkman.} 1st Lieut 26th Infty.} A.A.A. General.} Bu of R.F. and A.L.} Galveston Texas.} Lieut, I, very respectfully state the fact that no business has been done at this office during the month. have been waiting anxiously for Troop here for I can not do anything without being sustained. I can not leave this place without some protection These professional men of the Brush are numerouse here. The slaughtering of freedmen still goes on though somewhat abated: but still the section bordering Read river is in a deplorable condition beond precedent: even in the dark days of negro persecusion. On the 16th instant three negros [[strikethrough]] we [[/strikethrough]] named Jake Bolen, Tom Bolen, and Bill King were shot through the crack or opening between the logs of their cabins whil sitting around their fires after night
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