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here I have taken their names and residences, and that is all I have to do with them. Tomorrow they will go before the Military Commission for examination the poorer class are released on takeing the oath of Alliegance to the Government, or when they claim foreign protection. But the richer ones do not get off so easily, those who have property at stake within our lines, are compelled to take the Presidents Amnesty Oath, or else be held in bondage, till such a time as they can be sent back to their beloved Confedercy. We kept one rich citizen who owns a great deal of property in New Orleans and Mobile. Here for nearly a month before he would come down to takeing the Oath. He had run away from Mobile to evade the Conscription Act, thinking that when he got here he would be all right It was awful grinding on him to endorse the Presidents proclamation on the Nigger question but he had to do it, or have his property here confiscated, and stand a chance of loseing life and property by returning to the so called confederacy