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Natchez, Mississippi
June 26th 1865

Colonel

I have the honor most respectfully to request an appointment in the Freedmen Department to which you have been recently assigned in this State.  I Served in the Federal Army for three years during the late rebellion and for Eighteen months of that time as Captain of a company in the 15" Regt Ill Inft. and was honorably discharged from service in June 1864.  I have since that time been for the principal part of the time engaged in Government Offices having been nearly three months with Major Reynolds Pro. Mar. of Freedmen Dist of Natchez.

If you have any authority to appoint civilians to any positions in your Department I will most cheerfully undertake to perform