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U.S. Sanitary Commission,
Camp Nelson, Ky  Mch 4 1865
(Private)

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Hon Chas Sumner

Allow me to suggest that if you shall have a Bureau for Freedom and any persons in Ky shall be connected with it
do not put in Rev. R.F. Breckenridge. I regard him, from evidences in the person & testimony of ex slaves in this camp, from his farm, as a passionate, cruel, ostentatious tirant; and no better this day than when he wrote that reply to you & there defended human slavery - its toleration.

Let me say I regard George D. Blakey of Bowling Green as one of our first men