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LB 100                                                      
C 292

Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner, 
BUREAU OF R.F. & A.L.
Liberty, Feby 2" 1867.

J. T.  Kirkman
1" Lt 26th U.S. Inftry
AAA Genl
Hd Qrts Distc of Texas
Bu. R.F. & A.L.
Galveston - 

Sir,
I have the honor to enclose herewith an endorsement from W. H. Sinclair. Sub Asst Commr. dated Hd Qrts Bu. R.F. & A.L. Galveston Jany 22" 1867, on a letter purporting to have come from one Sarah Cook (freedwoman), also a letter on file in this office from S. T. Fontaine dated "Liberty Jany 9" 1867" [which I respectfully request may be returned to this office] also an affidavit made before the Clerk of the County Court by Sarah Cook (freedwoman), also, affidavit of C. C Chambers Marshal of the town of Liberty.

The writer of the Sarah Cook letter was Wharton Branch a precocious lad of Seventeen or Eighteen Years of age, the instigator and actual composer of the letter was his mother - She died suddenly the

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