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Near Raymond, April 3d 1868.

Mr. J.B. Holt

Your favor fo March 23d came to hand a few days since— As it is [[strikethrough]] about [[/strikethrough]] more than two months since I wrote to Gen. Gillem I had thought he considered the matter beneath his notice, coming from a Southern woman; I am happy to inform him through you that they have been bonded out for two months past.  Their trial is to come on at the next term of our Circuit Court, ie. if we have another.

Very respectfully,
Julia M. Haynie.

PS. The Dept. Sheriff, Mr Willis, bonded one of the men, and my son-in-law, Mr. Ed. Powell the other. Mr. Fairchild, with whom they lived last year, has not given them a dollar for their labor, though he kept them at work untill Christmas, the crop being gathered long before; and he tried to get them to live another year with [[strikethrough]] them [[/strikethrough]] him, they not suspecting that he had an idea of tying trying them for killing the mule— And all around here believe these men would not have been prosecuted had they agreed to live with the said James B. Fairchild.
I only tell you what everybody here can tell you & hope you will not let my name be brought into this matter, as I am a poor old widow, and only wrote to Gen. Gillem for pity's sake— When my son took the man he has out of jail he was one mess of rags & almost starved— Very respectfully, Julia M. Haynie.

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