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laborers and to establish a Fm School for the children of the laborers. The works are thoroughly destroyed - a mere mass of ruins requiring a large outlay of capital to put them in order. The lease of the premises must [[?]] titles to all the broken machinery & debris thereupon; which though otherwise valueless, will be of great assistance in rebuilding. I will agree to put them in running order in six months. Be kind enough to let me hear from you at once & oblige, Your obt svt, Jno T. Croxton (Late Brig. Genl. U.S. Vols) Maj. Genl. Howard U.S.A. Comr. F.B.