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considered tho most difficult and dangerous of any other and yet I presume at this time I am in receipt of the smallest salary allowable by the bureau. You also General were in hopes to attain for me at first $125 per month which wd have been some what better.
My former rank and qualifications certainly shd in my estimation bring me in at least a salary equal to the numerous second Lieutenants now earning in the bureau. I would not have you understand me as complaining General. far from it. If in the estimation of your self you cannot in justice allow me but the $100 per month I shall gratefully accept it as I have become pleased with my labor and feel that I am doing some little good and have had the pleasure of seeing justice done the Freedmen in a considerable number of cases for the short time I have been here. I hope General that you will consider this communication private and not written in any spirit of complaint but I swiftly wish to call your attention to the fact of the discrepancy between the salaryies of other employees and my own. I holding one of the most difficult posts in your command. It seems to me that some remedy might be applied in my case.  Capt Sharp