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Georgetown 16. June 28 1865

Sir

On the 16th of the month, Sunday, I took my girl; Cornelia Lewis, to Freedman's village to see her mother. when we reached there, she went off with a lot of children and hid herself. yesterday I went to Capt. [[Care?]] , and demanded her, he gave me no satisfaction, and said they were free, and that he had no more right to go into one of those houses for her, than he had to go to Washington and enter any house, there and drag forth its inmates. we called for a guard to search for the girl, and he said that, there was none there. she is bound to me for