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Huntsville Alabama 
January 25th 1868

Maj. General O.O. Howard 
Comr Bureau R.F. & A.L. 
Washington D.C.

General:
I take the liberty to write you a few lines to show you the cause of my removal as chief clerk in the Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands at Huntsville Ala, and ask that if it is in your power to do anything for me, in the way of restoring me to my position to please do so.

A day or two after the removal of General Callis as Sub Asst. Comr, I was also removed from the office, for the only reasons I am told, that General Hayden understood that I was a relative and intimate friend of Genl. Callis, and that I belonged to the Union League. I am glad and will admit that I am a Union man, and a friend to General Callis, and all other men who have served their country as honorably, faithfully and fearlessly as he has, but it seems to me that this is a very unjust cause for my removal.

When I came to Huntsville, I came to clerk in the Bureau and do nothing else, and since I have been here I claim that