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Then there are very many women here with large families of children & no husbands, who have made a comfortable living by washing for the hospitals. What is to become of this large class of people now. I am unable to predict. Could any kind of manufactures be started here to furnish employment for the women & children, or could they have a few acres of ground which the mother & children could cultivate together, it would open up a more cheering future for them. With earnest desire to relieve the sufferings, & aid in the education, of this unfortunate class of our fellow-men I am , Captain; Very Respectfully Your, C. G. G. Paine P.S. I enclose a statement from one of my teachers others could present even worse cases had they been able to with then. C. G. G. P. [[right margin]]L. R. W. 166 R. F. & A. L. Va. 1866[[/right margin]]