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Georgia, Vt. Nov 29th 1865.

Maj. Gen. Howard.

Sir: Please pardon me for addressing a stranger, but through the papers, I learn that you are superintendent of the Freedmen's bureau, and therefore, the proper person to give information in regard to them. It is my earnest desire to aid in educating them; my sympathies are with them, and always have been, ever since I was old enough to understand the meaning of