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Lunenburg. C. H. Va
October 2nd 1868

Lieut J. A. Yeckley

My Dear Friend:
I wrote you two letters within the last month. but have received no reply to either of them. & supposing you have not received them I write again today. In one of the letters, I wrote you, that now, being pardoned by Congress, I wished to apply for pay as agent while I was connected with the Freedmens Bureau of this county. I having been prevented from getting pay heretofore, because I could not take the test oath, but now that my disabilities have been removed, no test oath is required of me & I wish to get the pay that is due me.  I asked your assistance in getting it in that letter and suggested the propriety of your writing to Genl Howard & Genl O Brown, the latter at Richmond Va. upon the subject.  As I have not heard from you since. I conclude you have failed to get my letter and therefore again repeat the request. in this I am really in a very destitute situation.  My being a radical has ruined my business.  Since the sentiment in this county is so strong against Republicans that the people will not deal with or employ them & this feeling is particularly bitter against the white men who have joined the Republican party.  I am entirely dependent upon my practice as a lawyer for a support & the people will not employ me because of my political sentiments.  I am entirely destitute of means and unless I can get the pay due me,

Transcription Notes:
there is word before oath that we can't decipher.