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Stevenson, Alabama
Dec. 4, 1865.

Maj. Gen O. O. Howard.
Freedmen's Bureau,
Washington D.C.

Sir: -.
I have the honor to request that you will send me such pamphlets, circulars, &c, as your Department has issued relative to the Freedmen and the Freedmen's Bureau, including copy of the Act of Congress authorizing the Bureau, & instructions issued to Agents, &c.
I have just located here from the North, (Wisconsin), for the purpose of practicing law, and I find the people wonderfully ignorant of the powers, jurisdiction, objects, &c, &c, of the Freedmen's Bureau, and unfortunately I am not sufficiently

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