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0868

Augusta Georgia
March 7th 1867

To Major General O. O. Howard
Commissioner B.R.F.& A.L. Washington D.C.

General:
Your letter, containing your endorsement on the papers submitted to you by the Hon. Charles Sumner, accompanied with a copy of my letter to Col. Browne, was received by me yesterday.

I deeply regret that I have been so unwise, as to write anything, which would be so construed as to implicate a wrong design, or impure motive to any of your actions. You are the last person in the world that I should think of impugning with wrong, to word or act.

Such an implication was the furthest thing from my heart, when I wrote to Col Browne.

I know that Milledge had been recommended to you as loyal & that if you appointed