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Salisbury N.C. October 31st 1867

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington City D.C.

General;-  I have the honor to report, per Special Orders No 160, that I have just reached this place - one forever to be held in hateful remembrance by every American patriot, as the city, in the suburbs of which, one of the chief military prisons, indeed a field of blood, of the confederacy was located, during the war; and in whose suburbs more than ten thousand American soldiers starved and abused, now sleep the long sleep of death. I find built just outside of this field, near the prison ground of our soldiers, and but a few yards from the field, in which the dead ones now lie buried,