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but could not get any promise of relief. After working from seven o'clock in the morning until nine in the evening: I went to bed too much discouraged to sleep. Our Bureau affairs seemed hedged in on every side.

After turning the matter over and over again I could see no other way in which I could faithfully execute the trust committed to me but that proposed in the accompanying communication

I this morning submitted the plan to Maj Genl Terry he fully endorses it and says if I am allowed to carry it out he can reduce his force in the State twenty five per-cent