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Gen. Sewell proposed to recommend for me two officers, a Captain & 2nd Lieutenant for the Trent River Settlements, and one clerical officer to assist me in the office - I think one officer at the settlement would answer, and think I have a very good and efficient man in Lt. McKillip who is now acting in place of Rosekrans. I think also that I can probably get no better clerical officer than Lt Coats who is now at Washington N.C. A good man to relieve him if the plan meets your approval is all that I urgently need at present unless it is thought best to dispense entirely with citizen agents- which would require the places of Capts Wheeler & James to be filled-

I am establishing a farm just over the