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Fort. Monroe Aug 29/65 Col. O. Brown Com. R. & A. Lands &c Va. Col. I have the honor respectfully to ask your favorable attention to an application that I have enclosed in favor of an effort to retain in the service Lt. Wilson, & have him assigned to this District for duty. I would not trouble you with anything more than my endorsement of his application, if it were not for an enquiry rather as a complaint of Gen. Miles, to know why you committed such important interests to men (generally.) entirely unfit for the duties_ He says the interests of the Bureau will greatly suffer unless more care and discrimination is exercised in regard to the above. [[strikethrough]] Yours [[/strikethrough]] I have the honor to be your obt Sert C. B. Wilder Capt. & A.Q.M. & Supt,
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