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Covington Va.
May 29. 1867.

Rev. R.M. Manley
Dear Sir
A few weeks ago in writing to a friend who resides in Washington City I incidentally mentioned that I had been laboring to instruct the freedmen in matters appertainng to the interests of their immortal souls. I stated that I have religious services for them one sabbath in the month separate and apart from the congregation of white people to which I minister. This I did before during and since the war and I am now doing the same. I endeavor to instruct them out of and in