Viewing page 7 of 211

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Wisewell Barracks
Industrial School
Jan. 2d 1868

General Howard,
I write, as you requested, to ask if you will be so kind as to furnish wood for William Piemont, watchman at the new School Building near Freedmen's Hospital — He is too feeble to bear the extreme cold, and so careful he may be safely trusted with a fire.

I wish you would allow him to have an air tight wood stove, which can afterwards be used in school-room. Such a stove would be safer & more economical than any other — you will please remember he has been a soldier and lost health in the service of his country.

Permit me to ask for authority to give "tickets" for clothing or other supplies to such women connected with my school as I know personally to