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is industrious, and his habits and moral character entirely unexceptionable.  If you are in need of officers, I feel confident that would make a very useful one for your District, and I trust you will be able to do something for him -

I am Sir
Very Respy
Your obt Svt
L.G. Pitcher
Brig Genl U.S.V.
Comdg Dist. Ind.

To 
Maj Gen O.O. Howard
Chf. B. Freedm & Refs
Washington
D.C.