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the alligations he will recommend the Sheriffs removal.

Miscegenation is in this section extensively carried on, by no means compared to the white man and colored woman. White women live about here to the number of a dozen who believing it to be a poor rule that will not work both ways earn a precarious support by dispensing certain carnal favors to sable admirers. One of these was tarred and feathered last night by a posse of indignant citizens who do not believe in the propriety of the two fold action of the above mentioned rule.

The great need in this Division is to push education as much as possible and get some Union civil Officers. With education a superior virtue & intelligence will come and at the closing up of the Bureau we shall know that what we have done for the Freedmen is not only for the hour but for the future.

I am Capt
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
T C.E. Thomas
Bvt. Brig. Genl. Capt 20th Infty
Sub. Asst. Comr.