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Mobile Ala. Sept. 19th 1865

Genl Wager Swayne
Asst Commr &c
Freedmen

Genl:

I have the honor to respectfully make the following statement
On the 1st of May last I was engaged by Col Geo A. Harmount, as Contract Clerk in the Freedmen's Bureau in this City. On the 1st of June I was appointed Chief Clerk in that position I worked harder than at any other time of my life. I was paid off for May, and Col Harmount promised me often that he

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