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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L. Office Sub Dist Eastern Shore Va. Drummondtown Va. January 10th 1867 Gen S. C. Armstrong Supt 5th Dist Va General I have the honor to request that leave of Absence for thirty days be granted me for the purpose of visiting my Wife who is ill at her home in Pensylvania, I Should not ask for So long a leave but, that it will require five days travel to reach home, & I have not had leave of Abscence for two years, I have had but twenty Seven days leave Since entering the Army almost five years ago Very respectfully Your obt Servt Ed. Murphy 1st Lieut 10th Regt V.R.C Asst Supt