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title to it, though I am a citizen of Washington, and that court was a Southern Court: all which stands between me and my rights, is your Bureau. This I know I have only to mention, in order to have possession, and also my arrears of rent due since its occupation by the Freedmen's Bureau. My husband being absent, I am dependant upon my own exertions for the support of myself and child - I appeal to you, General to put me in possession of my house and grounds. Give me an order to that I effect - and thus assist a hard working woman, whose husband fought bravely for the union, and upon whom the times are pressing hard. I refer you to Mr Drew, who knows me, and who knows