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York Town Va
June 27th 1868

Gen. O. Brown
Asst. Comr. Bureau R.F. a& A.L.
State of Va

Sir:
The colored people of the counties of the James City & York, having requested that I should be appointed Freedmens Agent for said Counties, I hereby desire to express my willingness to accept such appointment, should you think proper to make it.

That you may know something about me, I will state that at the commencement of the late war, I entered the Union Army as a Private in the 23d Massachusetts Infantry, and served in that Regiment until December 1863, when I was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st U.S. Colored Cavalry, afterwards promoted to 1st Lieut.  In June 1865, after the close of the War, I went with my Regiment to Texas where I served as Provost Marshal on the Staffs of General Draper and William T. Clarke, until I was honorably

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