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100 C.B. Wilder Capt AQM &c S. Ellison Endorsement on letter of Capt. C.B. Wilder AQM & Supt dated Fort Monroe Va Jan 26th 1866 (W.182) acknowledging receipt of S.O. No. 15. & turn over to Mr S. Ellison his property consisting of a Saw Mill. Encloses a letter from Mr Hunt and asks if the engine and Gov't fixtures shall go with the Mill, &c &c. Richmond Va Jan 29th/66 Respty returned to Capt C.B. Wilder Supt 9th Dist Va. who will call upon the Board to report at once and who will delay obedience to S.O. No. 15. until the report is forwarded. Capt W. will inform Mr Butts of this action. By order of Col. O. Brown James A. Bates AAAG Rec'd back Feby 20th/66 & Filed in 9th Dist. see Report of Col Mallory on the case filed with it P.W. Stanhope Bvt Maj USA R.H. Armstead Endorsement on letter of R.H. Armstead dated Williamsburg Va Jan 26th 1866, (A.20) relative to correspondence restoring certain lands &c. from Asst Comr to Capt Wilder at Frot Monroe, by whom the order has been lost, or mislaid. Williamsburg Va Jan 26th/66 Respectfully referred to Col. O. Brown Supt Freedmens Bureau, Va with the information that while admitting the remarkably prompt and perfect satisfaction invariably obtained at the Head Quarter Office of Col. O. Brown when papers pass into the hands of his subordinate officers they are delayed an unreasonable time. frequently lost. and information. regarding this disposition, either witheld or denied, resulting in frustrating the wishes of the U.S. Gov't to speedily put the property - restored by order of the U.S.- in possession of the owners thereof. (Sgd) P.W. Stanhope Bvt Maj USA Comd'g Sub Dist of Peninsula Richmond Va Jan 29th/66 Respty returned to Bvt Maj P.W. Stanhope U.S.A. The order of restoration for this property was dated Dec 28th 1865. It is requested that information be furnished this office whether said order has been obeyed. By order of Col. O. Brown James A. Bates AAAG see page 121. 101 James Johnson Maj & Supt G.H. Northam Endorsement on letter of G.H. Northam dated Warsaw Richmond Co Jan 18th/66 (N.6) states that the freedmen refuse to make labor contracts for more than one or two months. and in consequence planters are making arrangements to secure foreign labor for the coming spring. States there are a large number of fatherless colored children. and recommends that they be bound out until they are 21- requests to be assigned to the charge of Rich'd and Westmoreland Counties in plac of Lieut Haskell. Richmond Va Jan 29th/66 Respty referred to Maj James Johnson Supt 10th Dist Va. who will communicate with the writer. It is believed that the regulations of the Bureau judiciously carried out will remedy the evils complained of. By order of Col O Brown James A. Bates AAAG C.B. Wilder Capt AQM &c Continuation of endorsements on letter of Capt C.B. Wilder AQM & Supt dated Fort Monroe Va Jan 26th/66 (W.178) acknowledging receipt of papers directing the removal of colored woman from Asylum at Williamsburg- States that there was a mistake about the woman pronounced "Idiotic" by the Board. that the Doctors of the Asylum agreed she is insane and suggest that she be allowed to remain for another examination &c &c. Richmond Va Jan 29th/66 Respty returned. The insane person referred to within will remain for the present as suggested. (Sgd) JJ DeLamater Surg & C.M.O. Richmond Va Jan 30th/66 Respty returned to Capt C.B. Wilder Supt 9th Dist Va whose attention is invited to the endorsement of Surg DeLamater. By order of Col. O. Brown James A. Bates AAAG The first endorsement being a mere reference was not copied in this Book. see letter from Eastern Lunatic Asylum page 53
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