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Bureau R F & A Lands
Sub Dist Augusta & Highland Cos
Staunton Va. Feb 4th 1867

Capt. John A. McDonnell
Supt. 9th Dist Dept. Potomac
Winchester Va.

Captain

Having seen an order in which you were instructed to visit this Sub, Dist, and investigate certain charges against me, and in which you were refered to call upon the Teachers of Freedmen, Trustees of the Church, and Oscar Morris the Asst. Assessor at this place for proof of these charges, and you having kindly shown me the statements of the parties to whom you were refered, I beg leave therefore to respectfully invite your attention to the following explanation and rebutting statements.

Sometime in the latter part of the winter or the early part of the spring of 1865 the A.M.A of New York sent four boxes of clothing here through the Q.M. Dept. three boxes of which were sent to Mr John Scott, (Teacher of Freedmen) in my care, and the other one to myself for gratuitous distributions. At that time the colored people had just purchased an old building which

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