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dock; also Q.M. & Commiss. Store houses.

A donkey engine forcing water 2000 feet to the rear from fine springs [[strikethrough]] in [[/strikethrough]] through 2000 feet of two inch iron pipe. A hose 400 feet long. Shingle mill, nets & seines; 60 acres planted in farm and garden, well manured, crop looking well; hot beds; A rustic chapel half finished. Stained glass on hand for windows, a small organ (melodeon) - Printing press. Nineteen cows - some poultry.

Now this place is too good & too valuable to give [[strikethrough]] back [[/strikethrough]] up to the secesh clergyman, or to sell the fixtures at auction for a song.

Would it not be elegant for indigent freedmen and their families? A grand place for a colony, with extraordinary advantages. Plenty of untilled arable land all about. They could nearly if not quite support themselves. The place is on the Appomattox, about 3 miles above City Point, and was known as the Point of Rocks Hospital.

General Butler had in view when he ordered the place erected that it would be good for a colony afterwards; therefore