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Railroad, is our nearest post office; and it is six miles distant. Nearly all our mail matter passes through the hands of Rebels- so few are Union men here. In a future letter I shall deem it my duty to inform you of the situation of affairs in this country, and some of the difficulties I will surely have to encounter in the discharge of my official duties. In your instructions you say I must have "patience, and goodness of heart." Every human being should have these two noble qualities. If I do not possess them, my acts will soon afford evidence of it; by them I am willing to be judged, upon earth, as elsewhere.
Respectfully
Wm. P. Farrells
To Brevet Major General L.B. Fisk, Asst Com, &c &c.
Nashville, Tenn.
P.J. Feb 5th:
The above was written the day it hears date I was taken ill the next day, so as not to be able to attend to business well; and in their state of affairs I concluded not to forward the above until I could see all, or nearly all of the magistrates at County Court today, and learn, if possible, if they aimed to aid one in the administration of justice by becoming the agents of this Bureau. not one of them has accepted the agency