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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Washington, Nov 19th 1865. 

My Dear Colonel,
I have to thank you for your kind letter of the 16th, handed me by Capt White - 

I can readily understand the feeling among the [[Virginians?]] that you allude to, from my acquaintance with Virginia character - They have so long looked upon themselves as the Salt of the Earth, & that their slaves were beasts of burden, subject to their imperial hand of command, 

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