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New Bern Ala
Aug 24 1867
Gen Wagner Swayne

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

Dear Sir
I was employed with my wife to teach school in this place (Newbern) we taught untill the first of this month, when they were closed She has not received her pay for March the duplicates were filled w/ Mrs J.W. MCann not noticing the discrepancy signed it as she had done before T.J. McCann the agent at Demopolis then sent the duplicates, Stated the mistake and said he had no more duplicates said we would receive them from Montgomery Some two months. they sent duplicates for March filled w/ Mr J.W. McCann forty dollars I had received mine fifty dollars I signed them and sent them back, but the draft has never come to hand I have written some three or four times to Mr. Buckley, the July drafts has not come the duplicates were sent signed and sent back to Montgomery. I have devoted ten years of my life as a missionary to the Freedman, this year they are not