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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands 
Office Sub Commr Meridian Miss May 23 1866

Newman, Rev. J. E.
Sageville Miss

Dear Sir

Your communication at hand and contents noted. I do not know of any surplus hands - should your Boy find any will aid him in securing their services. Should have been out to your place but have confined to my bed with Laryngitis for the past four days no more School Books on hand will send to Vicksburg and get some more

In haste your most Obt Servt
Jno. J. Knox
Bvt Maj & Sub Commissioner
District of Meridian

Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office Sub Commr Meridian Miss May 25th 1866

Love W.A
De Kalb Miss

Dear Sir

I have the honor to acknowledge the rest of your Communication for Andy and in reply hereto would say that your opinions are fully sustained by this Bureau. If the man with whom Andy was working treated him badly or said he would not pay him he did right in leaving him and no man had any right to arrest him for so doing. I never gave this Lasiter any authority to arrest anyone. Do not know him at all. I enclose herewith a copy of the Civil Rights Bill now in force in this State and would Respectfully endorse the Civil Officers of Kemper Co to the government accordingly

Very Respectfully
Jno. J. Knox
Bvt Maj & Sub Commssr
Dist of Meridian

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Office Sub-Comr F.B.
Meridian Miss
May 20th 1866

Greer Mrs. 

Madam, 

Upon examination of the Freed woman "Linda" I am informed that you ordered her to leave your house if this is so you must allow her to take her Children with her as there is no Law that would allow the separation of Children from their Parents if she had intended to leave of her own accord I should have tried to persuade her to remain with you but if her statement is correct it is a case beyond the Control of the Bureau.
I am Madam
Your Obt Servt
J.W. Sunderland
Capt & Asst Sub Com
District of Meridian

Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Office Sub Commr Meridian Miss May 25th 1866

Hunt Samuel
A.M.S.61. Jno St
New York 

Sir

Your letter of the 17th Inst to Miss Warren has just been shown to me. You request the Teachers to return to their homes upon the receipt of the same notwithstanding the efforts of the Cold People to have them remain. I have been stationed at this Post since the first of January and as my orders require me to protect the Teachers of the Freedmen Schools and look after the interests of the same I speak from personal knowledge and can assure you that the schools at this place have been conducted in the best possible manners. The Teachers have 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-06-25 08:29:38 Greer Mrs. rather than Greer Jno