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follows. Not less I think then ten thousand dollars a month. All of which I understand should come into your hands for correction, to say nothing of the misfortune that falls with a heavy hand upon several thousand colored people. I shall be necessarily absent some three or four days in Maryland. At the end of that time shall return immediately to this place where I should be pleased to receive any communication from you as regards future action.
I am Most Respectfully
Your Obd't Servant
C.B. Wilder
Capt. & A.Q.M.

to Col. O. Brown
Ass't Commissioner
Richmond Va