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Norfolk Va
Sept. 14. 1865

To Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard.
Com. Bureau Freedmen &c.

General.
The undersigned James Campbell and Susan W. his wife respectfully ask that you will restore to them the possession of their house and lot in the City of Norfolk, situated at the Corner of Cumberland and Wolfe Streets, now, as they are informed, in the use of the Bureau as of which you are the head, and they by leave to submit the following statement of facts.

1st. The said property is the separate and exclusive estate of the said Susan W. Campbell, by deed duly made and recorded on the 18th day of April 1861 as will appear from a copy of said deed filed herewith.

2d The said property has never been confiscated, nor libelled in any U.S. Bank, nor has any proceeding to libel or confiscate the same ever been instituted.

3d The said property was never "abandoned" within the meaning of the act of Congress of the 2nd July 1864, because the undersigned James Campbell, being within the military age, and liable to military duty under the Conscript Law, was taken into the military service, and brought away from Norfolk, at the time of its evaluation and was most reluctantly, not voluntarily, absent therefrom.

4th The undersigned James Campbell, is a tailor by trade, and is not embraced