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Washington
Nov. 20 1865.

Brig. Gen. Davis Tilson,
Sub-Commissioner,
Freedmen's Bureau,
Augusta, Ga.

Sir:
My friends Mr. Varnum H. Flagg and Mr. F.F. Putney, of Massachusetts, leave this city today for Macon, Ga.

They are enterprising young men who will represent the industry and the thrift of New England. Their object in going to Georgia is to purchase land for the purpose of raising cotton &c. If they succeed many more