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0026 Philadelphia 28th October 1866 General Howard Sir would you be so kind as to grant me a transportation to go to Washington beaufort Co. NC for I have a consometive wife and that is what keeps me so poore that I cannot rase money a nuff to take me down thair, I have served 18 months in the army of the united States, and have a honorable discharge from the 186 Regiment the resin that i could not get it when discharged was becaus i enlisted hear, in this city, sir you would oblidge me mutch by giving me one for my wife and two children and my self, Joshua G Hursey