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Elkton Cecil Co. Maryland Feb'y 11th 1867 Major Genl C. Griffin Galveston Texas General: I wrote you some few days ago_ directing to Washington D.C. My Communication was returned endorsed "Gone to Texas." The incentive in writing was this. To ask your influence in procuring me a Clerkship either under your immediate eye or in someone of the Dep'tments in Washington. I clerked during the late war for Genl.s Gregory and Chamberlain and at one time for 15 months for Maj. Monteith and Capt Fowler A.A.G's