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Eastville Virginia
August 28. 1865
James Lord Esq.
Supt Freedman's Bureau
Eastville Va
Sir
In reply to yours of the 26th inst. I have the honor to say that Mr Francis H. Smith formerly in the employ of Lieut. Col.  White as Auditor of Accounts on the Eastern Shore of Virginia was at that time and I am informed on good Authority allways has been a strong Sympathiser with the rebellion talking at all times in favour of the South and expressing his hopes that they might eventually succeed in their Strugles after the surrender of Genl. Lee and the flight of Jefferson Davis. Mr Smith expressed the strongest hopes and prayers that Davis might escape. Mr Smith is in my opinion a man of a great many peculiarities and almost Crazy on the Spiritual Question and it might possibly have been a communication from the spirit Wourld that caused him to make these (in my opinion unfounded) charges against Lieut. A.H. Bowman