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Headquarters
Bureau of Refugees,
Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Seguin, June 21st, 1866.

Bvt. Maj. Genl Kiddoo,} 
Galveston

Genl, Before this reaches you, you will have acted in the matter of the charges preferred against me, and your action therein will have become final, so that my writing you now cannot possibly affect your ruling. I purposely avoided writing you - so as you would be free to act. Should you have determined to have me appear before a Court Martial to answer the charges brought. I will be sorry, not that I fear the result, which I partially Court - but sorry that you did not see through the flimsiness of the allegations.  

The few appeals taken have been affirmed. It is not my ruling they take exceptions to - but the thing itself, the Bureau. Until some viscious ruling of mine is set aside, or some crime fastened on me, I ask to be maintained in the future, even against all comers, 

In Military parlance the forlorn hope is supposed to be the very Cream of the army, I am the forlorn hope, in this case, as early as June 1863, without hope of reward, I threw myself into the breach, and have been there ever since. To be fatally struck behind by my friend, whilst labouring in the breach will be poor encouragement to those that may hereafter volunteer in the same cause. Enclosed you will find