In this note interfiled with rations requests written to Captain F. Liedke of the Freedmen’s Bureau, J. Calhoun Cain states that Freedman James Jenkins formerly belonged to his father.
In the note, dated 11 July 1867 and written from Pinopolis, SC, Cain states that James Jenkins was elderly and somewhat feeble.
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Source Citation
Records of the Field Offices for the State of South Carolina, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1872 (NARA Micropublication M1910), Reel 89, Frame 334.
