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NARA 258

Terry Hinds Co. Missi
Jany. 18th 1868.

Gen'l A C Gillem
H'd Q'trs 3rd Mil Dis
Holly Springs Mi.

Sir,
I have in my possession two Colored Minors orphans, who were regularly apprenticed to me under a State law, applicable to such cases - After a full hearing before the proper Civil Officer. These Children I have recently been requested to deliver up to Lo[[?]] Relations, by the Bureau Agent at Jackson upon the statement of an irresponsible freedman of notoriously bad character without learning to desire any other information than 

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