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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] G "For your own eye" Augusta Ga May 14th 1867 Col Sibley Sir, I am here sick. I left Waynesboro, because I considered it unsafe for me remain there. A report was circulated there by a person who pretended he knew me that I was a part African &c If such is the case I never knew it untill I came South - my parents I was seperated from when I was a mere infant and placed under the guardianship of a Medical gentleman in Philadelphia &c I attended White Schools and a White University and entered the Army at the Commencement of the late war at the age of Sixteen &c. I fought through