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Athens Ala August 20, 1867
P.H. Woodard
Special Agent
P.O. Department
Atlanta Ga

Dear Sir
Your letter of 10th inst came to hand in due time and I am grateful to you for having placed before Gen Poh the facts in my case, and think you done what any Officer should in reporting Danforth. He has stolen from the Government large quantities of corn and meat the latter I can prove by many good reliable witnesses, beside he is a drunken worthless man, wastes large amounts of government produce upon vile men and worse women. He keeps a regular harem in his office and takes advantage of many poor, but would be virtuous women, who come to him for rations and causes them by promises of aiding them, to yield to his bare desire, and thus barter away their character for that which to sustain the lives of themselves children. He always has a set of vile scoundrels around his office a sample of whom you saw here, and I assure you that in no small town has the government been worse swindled than here, and it is still kept up, and will be as long as such men are allowed to blunder and rob not only the government but those that it has in its magnanimity endeavored to keep from suffering  The order you shake of