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Lunenburg Mass
March 30/67

Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard.

Sir,
Knowing as I do how much your time must be taken up by the business of your office, I feel some hesitancy in intruding this letter upon you but I trust you will consider the object I have in writing to you as sufficient to warrant this intrusion.

I see by the news papers from time to time various conflicting reports in regard to the treatment of the freedmen by the rebels. they tell of large numbers of the freedmen coming to their death at the hands of rebel assassins: one class of them do at least while another class strenuously deny that the crime is carried to any such extent.  A short time ago, there appeared