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[[page cut off]] De, Lamatter about the small pox. Gen. Brown told me that the farm had been turned over to Mr Taylor that he Taylor had been pardoned that he Brown would do all he could for the residents on said farm. I explained to Gen. Brown the situation of these six hundred (600) freed people and told him that if they were compelled to leave the farm at that time, that they would be worse off than any six hundred (600) people in the U.S. I wrote to James Henry Black making a statement of what I had done for them. This letter was returned to me unopened. I have it now in my posession. On the 1st day of August last I saw two of these men and they had a conversation with me I told them what I had done for them this was in Richmond. I was also in Norfolk on the 1st of May and saw a resident of the farm. I told him what had been done and that they would not for the present be driven away. I never told them that they had been thus wronged. I told that that the Bureau had no right to charge them for clothing (Government) I said nothing to them about the wrong in compelling them to leave the farm. 

Made & Sworn to before the undersigned in Richmond Va Sept. 12th 1867.

Paul R Hambrick
Leiut. 45 Infty. Actg Sub Asst Com 

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