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Pine Bluff Arkansas
February 12th 1870

Edgar Ketchum
Treasurer of A.M.A

Dear Sir

I take this opportunity of writing you a few lines in regard to the school property in this place belonging to your association, and here let me remark that I organized the first camp and "home farm" for the Freedmen in this section of country and was Supt under Genl Eaton and also under Genl Sprague during the war and afterwards, being in charge three years, and am fully posted