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Page 2 on removing all rebels from the civil offices and placing loyal men in their stead. My husband with a few >u< active & efficient workers are busily employing every ?? evening in organizing clubs - Union leagues - & c&c. ?? The colored people especially his old soldiers are in extacies [sic] over his return - & declare they will elect him to any position he will consent to fill - for the present he is busy Registering voters in a Country parish - a position to which Sheridan appointed him. The other place of Register in Bankruptcy to which Justice C?? nominated him has proved entirely a failure and has been given at last to an ex confederate soldier - who is now ?????(underlined) loyal. But the officer would not pay for the salt he eats - & it is better as it is for his present position ??? the