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who immediately restored them upon learning the facts of the case as stated.  Immediately afterwards the said Wm. S. Tunnell returned to his home in Accomack County, or the 19th of April in the year 1865.  After his return a certain Lt. Edward Hartly seized the same and ordered the tenant of said lands to pay the rents due therefor to him, and since the said Lt. Hartly has left his post the said rents have been paid to a certain Lt. Hite who has received the same and whether he has turned the same over to the credit of any find of the U. States the said Rosetta and Wm. S. Tunnell are not informed.  The said Rosetta Tunnell is and has been since the death of her husband entitled to dower in said land and the said Wm. S. Tunnell is the devisee of the estate there in.  And the same has never been used or occupied by the Freedman's Bureau, but is now in the hands of a tenant who is ordered to pay the rents to said Lt. Hite.  And the said Rosetta and Wm. S. Tunnell have applied for the restoration of said lands heretofore, and they have been met by the said Hite in the manner described  by the accompanying papers marked "A: & "B".  Letter "A" is from A.S. Flagg Capt & Supt 1st Dist. of Virginia to John H. Pasker and "B" is from Jno. W.H. Parker to Genl. Henry A. Wise, copies of which are herewith submitted.