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Portsmouth Va July 10th 1865

Lieut Jno H Keatly
Asst Supt Freedmen
Norfolk Va

Sir  the undersigned in compliance with the regulations for the recovery of abandoned property do hereby state that I left home on the 10th day of May 1862 and have all the time since been employed working at my trade as a blacksmith the greater portion of the time have been in the employment of the C & S.C. RR Co at Columbia S.C. I returned home on the 28th day of May 1865 and on the 29th took the oath of Allegiance prescribed by the proclamation of the president of March 26th 1865. I have also taken the oath prescribed by the Proclamation on May 29th with a full determination to adhere to them faithfully.