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Hoping that I may have introduced myself successfully to your rememberance allow me to solicit from you an appointment as Agent of the "Freedmen's Bureau" for this district.

Believing that a Seven years residence among them has fitted me to judge of their real wants and of the temporary disposition of this people — deeply interested in the purposes of the "Bureau" — hoping also that such a position, if granted, may afford enlarged oportunities for usefulness to all classes in promoting their religious and intellectual culture, I have ventured to make this application.

I could refer you to Brig. Genls. Robinson, Underwood, Bradley, Cruft, Whittaker and Tindale — Maj. Genrls. Stanley and Geary — together with a great member of Officers with whom I have had the honor of a very pleasant acquaintance.