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Nashville Tenn
18 Feb 1866

W M Guilford Esqr
Bridgeport Ala.

Sir, your letter of 12th inst recd in due time. it has  been forwarded with the following endorsement, as below, you had perhaps better come to Nashville and I doubt not you will succede.}

Truly yours
R. W. Bernard
Bvt Lt Col U.S.A.

Endorsement

Nashville 18 Feb 1866
Respectfully forwarded to Major Genl C.B. Fisk Asst Comm &c. heartily approved. Mr. Guilford is an Educated, trustworthy and reliable gentleman, a Union man in the fullest sense of the word, and one in whom confidence and trust may be reposed. As a citizen he has the respect of all his neighbors, no