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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