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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widow, with two sons, 10 & 12 years of age, the former now with his grandmother in the North, the older having been withdrawn from school for a lack of means to liquidate his expenses, & now with his mother devoted to assisting her in carrying on the plantation for this year.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