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August 5"

[[R a i?]] Williams Jr.
Supt. Col. Refugee Home
Camp Nelson Key.

Dear Sir:
I am directed by Brig. Gen. C.R. fisk Asst Comr for Key. Tenn. and Northern Ala. to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of 1st inst. and in reply to say that the General cannot see the necessity for having a Sutler at a "Charity Institute" What use can he be? Please explain. The General also directs me to inform you that he still must insist on having all the teachers at Camp Nelson under the auspices of one association and thinks that your Camp being so near Cincinnati that the "Western Freedmens Aid Commission" as the proper parties to supervise and furnish the requisite teachers &c. for Camp Nelson. It will not be understood from this that the General is hostile to the "American Mission" for on the Contrary he has plenty of work laid out for that Society. There will soon be established within this District a large number of Plantation Schools and the "American Mission" will be called on for all the aid they can render.