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not agree about some other matters about which some difficulty arose. Soon afterward, about - forty - head of cattle were driven off by the son of said Williams who said that Capt. Wilder Supt of Freedmen's affairs of my county had ordered him to do so. Capt Wilder informed my son that he did not give any such order, but that he had taken the cattle up as abandoned property and should not return them except by orders from Hd. Qrs.
Further there are between two and three hundred cords of wood upon my mothers property cut by a man named Hank, who says he cut it under and order from Genl Butten which authorized him to cut wood where and when he pleased, and that he intends to remove that wood and cut more.
And finally, I am mortified that Captain Wilder has taken possession of my mother's land as well as my own, as abandoned property and means to dispose of me in advance of any decision of the courts. 
Now in the first place, my stock was never abandoned and if it had been was mere taken possession of, but came into my hands when I returned, and even if taken possession of was never libelled for confiscation to become mine when finding it on my land.  I took the oath of allegiance. In the second