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Galena Kent
Co Md
Dec 1st 1869

Gen O. Howard,

Sir will you please to inform me if there is no protection for the teacher.  As far as I can ascertain there is no one in Galena that would disturb the teacher, here but one person's sons, that is a mr Christfiend son by the name of Wright Christfiend I went to the squire of Galena and I was told that he could do nothing. for it is a shame that I have to be struck just because my face is black, & was going up to the Galena Post office with three of my scholars and I was struck