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for a livelihood. The former can, by exertion, and enterprise, get remunerative work somewhere in the Peninsula; for the latter there are but scant wages and pinching allowances - homes where to do but drudgery, and to learn nothing. Woman-hood in these circumstances is not possible; morality is out of the question. They are what slavery - what the worst form of it - ignorance has made them - and in such houses as they get here there is no hope for their improvement. Here is a work - the education of our colored-girls. Sending them North to New England houses is the best thing I know, but this is insufficient.
I urgently recommend that the present condition of receiving transportation  i.e. "absolute want with danger of becoming dependant of Govt" be extended in favor of females to all those of good character who may desire to get Northern homes. It costs not over $10 each to send them to Boston. To get northern homes is worth to them all that character and womanhood is worth.
Pvt. Capt Massey A.S.A.C. is a reliable, capable, and highly successful officer. He has administered to my great satisfaction during a period of great embarrassment