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morning. I had previously however made arrangements with Lieut Cook to return at the expiration of two weeks and enter upon the duties of Clerk in his Office. While on my way through Baltimore, on board the cars in the night, while standing upon the platform of the car, in a crowd, I had my pocket picked, and lost fourteen hundred ($1400) dollars, among which was the eleven ($11) dollars which belonged to the colored people, and which I did not have an opportunity to turn over before leaving home, and thought it could make no difference as I was to return so soon. The money which I lost was not only all of my hard three years earnings in the Bureau, but three hundred ($300.) dollars of it was money which I brought from the North in 1863, and was nearly every dollar I had in the world.

In a few days after my return to Staunton I met Thomas Camell, (colored) Supt. colored Sabbath School, to whom I mentioned my misfortune, telling him that the eleven ($11.) dollars belonging to the colored people was among the money which I lost, and asked him if he thought it my duty, under the circumstances  

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