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of this place as I learn preparing a paper of some sort to forward to you which I judge coming from the Source it does will not set forth the matter in a just light and feeling as I do an interest in the welfare of the Bureau and the objects of its establishment among us I have determined to set forth the matter in its true light. The Agn here is a man as well respected in our midst as any union man may be. The Union people here and Freedmen feel that in him we have a friend while the better class of the chivalry respect him and his course