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to call your Honors attention to the Education of those Freedmens children. I have been giving thare children Books &c for the last years They hope you will sooner or later Give them a School Any assistance I can Gave will be with Pleasure. Inclosed I Send communication From Maj Gen Howard which is the last I have from him My opposition to the South in Seceding the ware now being in the Army of the So Called Con states &c are fild in the Proper office at Washington I am & Ever have been a strong supporter of the Unided States under all Circumstances and at all Times was in Illinois most of the ware = I suppose Lt Col Thomas first and Maj Gen O O Howard Second are Both satisfied with my coerces during The Rebellions = Honnored [[See?]] if those Freedman can have an Aget & you cannot do better & wish me to Serve = for the Freedmen of my vicinity Both in Schools & Contracts & the appointment does not discomade [[discommode]] [[your already Agents at Tuscaloosa & Demplos [[Demopolis]] Send me the authority & See how it will do I can not work without authority = the Pay can be easily arranged  Please Answer
Humbly your obt servt
A.C. Tyree
Eutaw Green Co
Ala
Care Judge W C Oliver