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And you think it to the Interest of your Bureau - which I do know would be to the interest of the freedman in this Region to form an Agency for the protection of Freedmen & then propose to appoint me Agt. I can give you any reference or surity you may want. Tho during the war from 1861 - to 1865 I was a union man sole and body & had once to leave home & cross into (Illinois)= Please answer 
As Freedman are applying almost every day to me to know what to do & I cannot tell them
Respectfully 
your obt sevt
A.C. Tyree
Steeles Bluff Green
County Ala

Write Entaro Green Co
Ala

Transcription Notes:
needs to be gone over again as some words are unclear.