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been a severe task - I thus have made myself useful to the Colored people and still further last year I took all of my savings while a soldier ($900.00) and created a school house for the Colored People - and as my Salary is only six hundred dollars per year and as [[individuals?]] must draw a salary - I find myself destitute of money even to carry me home on a short visit and was compelled last week to borrow the money to send my wife North. If the sacrifices I have made would seem to justify the favor I ask, I should be more than