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November 1st 1866, and the officer of that division was not relieved from that charge for five or six months after my assignment.

Mr Hildreth then charges that he had to do the work of two Clerks and one Officer, when the facts are that an extra clerk was only temporarily employed at the time the seventh and nineteenth Regt was mustered out. Many of the men came to the Bureau to have their claims made out, which rendered the employment of an extra clerk in that Division necessary, but that exigency had passed sometime before the Officer was relieved, I should say from thirty to sixty days.

It is true that Mr Hildreth waged that an Officer should be appointed to take charge of that Division, but the only name proposed by him was his own, and that was presented frequently and urgently

He than charges that the General had no right to put confidence in him, or trust him in such a position, and then he writes to the Office who had charge of that Division to certify to his good character and faithful performance of his duties while under him, besides he claimed to be a Christian man.