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To do this will involve a good deal of personal incon- and some additional expense to me, and will be attended by an irregularity in getting the mail but this irregularity - or rather delay - will be scarcely greater than I been laboring under at Luray C.A. ever since my arrival there.

Col. Brown and Capt. Barnes will recollect the circumstances under which I was ordered to Luray, and, at the present time, the opening of a colored school and colored teaching - to which I referred in my last monthly report of the condition of Freedmens affairs - and a tendency I apprehend on the part of certain of its citizens, to discharge the Freedmen in their employ since their crops are now safe, in my opinion render it necessary that a part of my time should be passed in that county for, at least, two or three months -

Very Respectfully
I am obt Servt 
J.W. Sharp
Capt & Asst. Supt
F.B. Sussex & Luray Cos
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