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Willow Bank P.O. Va Nelson Co
Nov'r 26th 1868.

To Gen'l Stoneman 
Comm'g District No. 1. 
Richmond Va:

Dear Sir; 
I take the liberty of asking your intervention in an affair in which I think I am about to suffer some injustice from the agents of the U.S. Government.
 
Just without the corporate limits of the town of Charlottesville, lies a piece of property, formerly belonging to the Estate of Genl John H. Cocke who died in 1866. As one of the legatees of Genl Cocke your petitioner bought the property & buildings thereon at public sale last Summer. During the war the Confederate Govt erected certain buildings on the same for hospital purposes, which they agreed with the owner should become his property in lieu of all rental accruing for the use of the real estate, as soon as the use [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] which they were built for should expire. This contract can be satisfactorily proven - Since the close of the war one of the buildings has been used for a freedmen's school. It as a large            

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