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from Govt employ and also somewhat to the muster out of the men whose business it had been to collect, & the substitution of men who have had little to nothing to do with it.

The amiable disposition of the authorities at Washington, toward our late "enemy brethren" and "Wayward Sisters" is such that I fear that it will be but a short time before all the houses of ex-rebels & lands &c will be in the hands of their amnested & pardoned claimants when I fear the Bureau receipts will be small indeed, & the continual muster out of regiments from which many of our men are detached give us great embarrassment.

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