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having left their former employers or masters for the purpose of enlisting in the army cannot easily find employment either with those employers or elsewhere thereby being reduced to suffering or crime  I beg you to lay this subject before the authorities at Washington to decide what relief should be furnished these discharged soldiers
I would respectfully recommend some means to be taken to give them employment if possible

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servt
(signed) A S Hartwell
Bvt Brig General