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for her, and bought a load of wood with my own money and got a man to haul it to her. Mrs. Holland did not furnish her any wood. Her house was only a few rods from my office, and I saw personally that she was well taken care of from day to day. Mrs. Holland is a Doctress and administered to her in that line, and she was constantly nursed and cared for by her colored neighbors. The Doctor boarding with Mrs. H. of whom she speaks is the confederate gentleman I sent you under arrest by order of Gen. Terry. When Emily died I started a subscription to get her a coffin by giving a dollar - another yankee gave a dollar - another half a dollar - and so on until I got enough to buy her a decent one. I then wrote a note to a white minister, and got him to come and preach her funeral sermon, (a thing unheard of in this community before,) and went with him to the funeral myself. While there I received applications for her children, whom I bound out to good responsible persons immediately afterwords, as I have already reported to you. "John", whose "little fingers" the old lady so strongly sympathizes with, was bound to Judge Howison, and rode behind him on his horse, very comfortably it is believed, to his home three miles distant. The old lady mistakes the atmosphere of that day - it was unusually warm. She also misrepresents the manner of my getting possession of "John". I sent to her for him and was informed that I must come and take him. True to her rebel instincts, she would submit to nothing but "necessity". I therefore went in person, and failing to pursuade her to let him go with me, and wishing to avoid a

Transcription Notes:
The Judge's name looks more like Howison to me, but I kept Harrison in as a suggestion. I'm not certain either way. > Seconding that it looks like Howison more than Harrison. >It's Howison, pretty sure.