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Bellevue Station
Dallas Co., Ala.
May 20th 1866

Maj Genl. O. O. Howard
Sir,
I have the honor to ask assistance (if not) advice how to reach Washington. My Home for I am realy necessitated and so pecuniarly low that it will be quite a time before I can ever be enabled to reach Home. I am at the above named place working but for what comparitively nothing and if it was not that I had been duped down into this section of Ala I would have been in better circumstances the facts in my case is this
About the 15 or 16th of July 1866 a Gentleman said to be Maj Genl Webster was in Washington desiring colored men to go to Irondale Jefferson Co., Ala. under the auspices of the Freedmens Bureau and as inducement was there by his assurance of getting not less than 1 1/4 dollars per day. I with 100 and more left Washington for the Government afforded transportation I was induced to take charge of the company and issue the ration all of which I fullfilled to the satisfaction of all for this I received no

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