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Head Quarters Military Division of the Mississippi,
St Louis Mo. Aug 26 1865

Maj Genl O O Howard,
Freedmens Bureau, Washington DC.

Dear General,
I have a proposition for some of our old soldiers offering to go south with an armed colony, of one hundred men, capable of self defense, and to settle on some of the abandoned land. It occurs to me it is the very thing we should aim to produce but the mode of accomplishing it is not so clear to my mind, but must be to you, who has given the subject your thoughts. I advise the parties to apply to you and commend them to your favorable consideration.

With great respect
Yr friend
W.T. Sherman
Maj Genl.

Through
Henry Van Gundy,
Kingston Ross Co. Ohio