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Utica New York, Sept.4,'65
Maj Genl Howard, U.S. Army,

Dear Sir,
I am desirous of learning whether I could probably get a number of colored men - say fifty or one hundred - who are good woodchoppers to work in the forests near the Black and Moose rivers in this state. Whether government would extend any aid in getting these parties together, and whether their transportation, or any portion of it, to the north would be paid by Government whether any contract could be made that would secure the service of these men for a stated period whether they could be gotten