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and I hope some steps may be taken to pay them for the time they were detained.

They were not mustered and Government is not responsible for their pay, but I would respectfully urge that by right these men would have been properly examined on their arrival at the recruiting rendezvous and not kept for months and then subjected to another medical examination whereby if discharged they obtained no legal claim upon Government for pay for the time that they had been detained by Military Authority.
 
I respectfully call attention to enclosed copy of letter to Bvt Maj Genl R. Saxton Asst Com. Refugees & A.L. on the case of colored soldiers discharged from Regiments organized in this Department

In connection with this subject I would respectfully suggest that as the colored Regiments raised in this 

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