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Portsmouth, Va.
August 18. 1865.

Colonel Brown
Sup't Freedmens &c

Having resigned my commission in the U.S. Army,- yet, nevertheless, it necessarily must occupy, perhaps months of my time in settling my official business with the Departments before I can obtain a final settlement.  These facts, however, you are familiar with, as it applies to all officers in your and my positions.  I make this statement in view of what follows, viz.  I am occupying the "Hume House", now turned over to the "Freedmans Bureau".  Previously to the expiration of my time of service, I have taken the precaution to say to Major Hudson that I should (in the settlement of my business) be detained in Portsmouth, and that I wanted the refusal to rent the said house, and he assured me that, I should have it (this conversation was verbal 

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