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restoration of our little property, now become our reliance for subsistence. Myself, wife & four children were and are destitute, without house or home. Recently all such lands have been turned over to your Bureau, and hence this appeal to you for the restoration of our land.
My neighbor E. S. Joyues [[best guess]]has had his land restored, as Mr. Hartley, Treasury Agent, informs me. Mr. H. did not hand it over to the F. Bureau as he did mine. Mr. Joyues' [[best guess]] estate would probably sell for more than $20,000. Mine is valued at $4000. Mr. Hartley informed me that Mr. Joyues [[best guess]] had been a tutor in a College, had none of the attributes of a soldier, and merely performed clerical services at Richmond.
Well Sir [[strikethrough]]at [[strikethrough]] Richmond I performed precisely similar duties and we were both in the same room. He was 25 years of age - I over 50 with a diseased lung. But my principal employment was the writing of a secret diary, which is now in preparation for immediate publication by one