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-terday I suppose he came to see how we were behaving and if his 'pets' got their rights.
May 15th Gen. P. left-today no negroes killed; indeed the East Tenneseans are exceedingly quiet. -Capt K thinks he has nearly cured them of "Negro on the brain".
May 16th Mrs. Cage has gone to Nashville. The scholars went to school this morning expecting her up on the train Before the train come the President of the contraband school came over with twenty negro men and took every bench in the school house except one that
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was greasy; the girls told him to take that, it was good enough for negroes: but no, he said it would "soil the ladies dresses." The girls took that and threw it into the street. Mag King took the broom and threatened to break his head if he came up the step again: he seen she was determined and left.
May 19th We received a letter from brother Rush this morning by Flag of Truce the first for months. None from Brohter J. yet.
May 20th Citizens are afraid to speak to each other when they meet. The yankees have
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