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Claremont W.H.  May 10th 1867

Major General OO. Howard
Washington, D.C.

I feel under the painful necessity of addressing you in behalf of my sister (Mrs LB. Judge Eutaw Alabama) who is one of the sufferers of our late War, & for whom you have the honor of making application for their relief (?)  She is a lone widow, with two sons, 10 & 12 years of age, the former now with his grandmother in the North, the older having been withdrawn from school for a lack of means to liquidate his expenses, & now with his mother devoted to assisting her in carrying on the plantation for this year.  Before I go farther, let me say she is truly a loyal woman, & has always been opposed to the war.

Her kin are all north, & she was born & educated here at the north.  During the