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Washington D.C.
1868.

Maj. Genl. O. O. Howard
Comm. Bureau. R.F. and A.L.

Dear sir.
We the undersigned Members Congress from Alabama, beg to say that Maj. W. H. Hunter, who is at present Asst. Sub Asst Comm. Bu. R.F. and A.L. in the Sub Dist. of Opelika Ala, was one of the first to enter the United States Service in the late war, as a private soldier, and was honorably mustered out on the 24th day of November 1865. He bore, by all his comrades the reputation of a gallant soldier and useful officer. He has resided in Ala for two years and has labored faithfully for the reconstruction of his adopted state. He has rendered valuable service in Sustaining with the ballot what he so gallantly fought for with the bayonet; he is deprived of the free use of his right arm, from wounds received in Action. We know him to be a man of integrity, Sobriety and ability, and cheerfully recommend him to you and ask that he be continued as Bureau Agent as long as there is a Bureau in Alabama, as a just reward to a meritorious soldier.

Very Resp. Your obdt Svts.
C. W. Buckley
Thomas Houghey 

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