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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] Medway, Aug 21st /65 Mr Wage Swayne, Res Sir- Having just read, in the Cincinnati Gazette, a letter from you ro A.F. Perry, of Cincinnati in which you stat that Northern men, soldiers in particular, are regarded as a valuable acquisition to the plantation, in view of the confidence freedmen place in them, I write for farther information as to the inducements [[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]] held and to such
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Medway, OH, not Alabama. This letter was from Ohio.