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Saltville Va June 8 1867 Chaplain Manly Superintendent Freedman's Schools Richmond Va. Dear Sir - I wrote you on the 2nd inst. stating that I had commenced to teach school at this place and that the signs were favorable; on the next day I took a stroll into the country, and after having gone about a half mile from the village I was startled by the report of a gun or pistol, which immediately aroused my suspicions that I had been fired at by some one consealed in the bushes