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Tyler House
Fort Monroe Va. Jan. 17. 1866

Capt. C. B. Wilder
A.Q.M. Supt. etc.

Captain; In accordance with your request [[strikethrough]]I[[/strikethrough]] we will tell you something of what we saw last week. On Saturday the 6th inst my wife & some of the teachers went to visit persons who had been asking for clothes & came back & reported great destitution among the families visited. One of the ladies unused to such scenes cried most of the evening at thought of what she had seen. A single instance will suffice. In one cabin not more than 8 feet square, I judge, were three women & 4 children, very destitute of all kinds of clothing & with no more bed clothes than would suffice for one bed.
Monday morning it was so cold that we did not open any of the schools but most of us started to look after the worst cases, while others remained at home to give out the clothing as we should order'd.
In the first cabin that we visited I found the women in bed trying to keep warm as they had no wood. In the next about 8 feet long,& 6 wide, was a woman & two girls. In one corner was a bundle of rags which you might put in a [[strikethrough]]bundle[[/strikethrough]] bushel basket, part of them the clothes of her son who had recently died when she had been 

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