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U.S. General Hospital Fortress Monroe Va June 20th 1865 Col O Brown Freedman's Bureau Sir I recd yesterday a note from Jno A Brown, stating that he had had conversation with you in reference to Capt Barnes. & that you desired some statement from me concerning him. Brown alludes to an opinion I gave him some months ago when he wanted a letter of commendation to Barnes. I believed the man to be very different in character & felt obliged to give my opinion to my friend as he invited it. Higher interests demand that you should ask in what the more favorable opinion consists. I must state that since Jan. 14 I know nothing about him. We became acquainted during [[/strikethrough]] M [[strikethrough]] CS. We were on Gen Harland's staff. My estimation of his character was made from many things which can't be written out. I heard the men of his regiment, which was in our brigade, talk of
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