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22d Wis. Vols. 2d Brig. 3d Div. 20th AC.
Near Washington D.C.
May 29/65.

Maj. Gen'l Howard,

Dear Sir:-
One year ago last March I entered the Army at Nashville Tenn. & since then have been laboring as best I could in my regiment. We have seen a very interesting work of revival in this Brigade & I trust much good has been done.

As I have travelled over the South I thought strongly of offering myself to the Missionary Board in order to labor among the Freedmen, but when your Bureau was established I thought of some position in that where I could labor in behalf of the colord people.

Should you have a vacant place & see fit