Order from Lieutenant James H. Smith to Captain J. P. Schooley; August 9, 1865

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Risdon, O. C.Schooley, J. P.Smith, James H.

Military Headquarters United States--Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands United States--War Department United States--War Department. Subsistence Department

Military Role--Provost Marshals

Mississippi--Hinds County. Jackson

African Americans African Americans--Historically free and newly freed

Order from Lieutenant James H. Smith to Captain J. P. Schooley; August 9, 1865

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Head-Quarters, Post of Jackson,
Jackson, Miss., August 9^th 1865.

Capt J. P. Schooley, Post Commissary will issue Seven days (Freedmen.) rations to ~~[gap]~~ Men, One Women, — Children, under 14 years of age.

By Order of Col. O. C. RISDON,

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