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Martinsburg
July 13th 1871

Gen O.O. Howard,

Sir I write you this to see if you could give me some information how to go about getting a situation I Some of the
departments of the government I am a colord man and I wold like to get a situation of some kind in some of the departments at Washington and I was advised by some of my white friends to write to you and probably you could give me 
some information on the subject and General I Will be ten thousands of times oblige to you I went to school since the war 1 year and a bout 7 months this is a specimen of my writing if you can give me some of