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Brownsville, Texas, Nov. 29. 1869 Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard Comr B.R.F & A.L., Washington, D.C. General, I have the honor to respectfully solicit the appointment of teacher at the Freedmen School in course of erection at this place. I served during the war as commissioned officer, &c, in the 178th N.Y. Vols, the latter part of the war as 1st Lieutenant and Regimental Quartermaster of said regiment. Until lately I served in the regular army as Sergeant Major of the 26th Infantry. In February and March of the year I was examined for promotion, passed both the preliminary and final examination, but failed to obtain my commission on account of Act of Congress passed at that