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[[stamp]] RECEIVED. Jul 1871 O.O.H. [[/stamp]]

Berea Ky July 17/71

Gen. O O Howard
Washington D.C.  

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Dear Friend
I have just learned that Genl Runkle is relieved from any official communication with the Bureau in Ky. I therefore write to you, not knowing to whom else I can write.

Coll Johnson then at Lexington Ky instructed me to secure the presence of a carpenter to come & repair the buildings at Camp Nelson & that he would meet me & the carpenter. I did so Johnson did not come - sent his assistant Mr. S. C. Hale. Hale knew not how much to demand for so much- It was