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U.S. Christian Commission
"This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief."

Petersburg VA
Captain O. Brown Superintendent of Negro affairs for Virginia. 

Dear Sir, 
I came here a few weeks ago as Superintendent of the American Freedmen Friend Society of Brooklyn N.Y. and in concert with the National Freedmens Relief Association of New York to organise schools for the Freedmen without any regard to sectarian issues whatever, although I am a Presbyterian Clergymen, yet I deemed it not wise, as this community of colored persons were largely Baptists to say anything about my ecclesiastical connection

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