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the two armies.  She did leave her said home in the care of Geo Randolph an aged man respectable citizen of that county who occupied it until he was forced from the same by the U.S. Military authority for reasons which she supposes were satisfactory to said authorities. She has returned to her home and is now occupying the dwelling by permission of an officer of the U.S. Army who is or was at the time she obtained permission connected with unforseen deportment in this country. That the land and out houses on her said place are now occupied by freedmen and their families and is under the control of the Freedmens bureau. She has taken the oath presented by President Johnson in his proclamation of May 29 1865 and has made files a certificate of the same. She inherited the said land from her parents who died upward of 40 years ago She does not know how she obtained it, but she has