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[[right margin]]EB page 78 Vol. 1 Va 1866[[/right margin]]

6th 1866, which I also pronounce impertinent and untrue, not that I desire to notice such endorsements, but to the end that he may be, once more, brought before a court when his own actions may receive that investigation he so earnestly asks for others.

I am prepared to prove, that I always promptly aided the Bureau, when called upon to do so, and that no impediments have been offered by me, in any manner, to the harmony and good feeling proper in all communities. That it has always been my wish, as I conceive it to be my duty, to assist any officer in the proper discharge of his duty.

I have the honor to give below the names of witnesses. I shall offer in case an investigation is considered of importance as far as Churchill is concerned. 

The last paragraph of Wilder's letter to Colonel O. Brown, 
Commissioner of Freedmen, Virginia, is sufficiently plain to fix his animus — and is strongly  indicative that his devotion to the principles therein admitted has undoubtedly caused most of the trouble and embarrassment existent between labor and the land — in the district he operates in —

I invite the attention of the General Commanding to this fact, viz., — A great many officers have, in their terms of duty, had official intercourse with this man, not one of them all, no matter how high his accord for gallantry in the field, and faithful performance of duty everywhere, but has had the same slanderous attacks from the pen of Wilder — it is at least singular if he, alone, can be right and they are wrong. 

My witnesses are,
Mr Vining Supt. Friends' Association for teaching of freedman working as a Mr Vining is a Quaker and has charge of the female teachers.