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- them they can furnish us with something to eat and a cabbin to live in but have not the money to pay our transportation and but slow means of makeing it at present

I think general if any is to be favord by the govermet that I should have the prefference to a rebel I that have hazarded my life in the cause and now reduced to indigence and want on account of it while I see numbers of rebels in my goverment employ and doing well while I am denied the smallest favor

I think if there is one sothrener that is justly due a favor from the goverment it is myself after what occurd at the time Jeneral Wilson pass'd through this section I was then Jailer in Tuskegee macon county Ala some of his men were accidentily taken put in my charge I fed them at my own expence and was so kind to them that I soon gain'd their kindest affection when Jeneral Lucas pass'd that way and took the prisoners with him he promis'd me that I should be amply rewarded for my kindness and gave me a passport to the affect that I should be respected by all U.S officers and troops and if at any time I wish'd a Transportation to any part of the U.S I should have one afterward when the troops were stationd at Tuskege I was kindly treated by all of them and some of the officers when they left profferd to pay my transportation out of their own pocket if I would go with them