Julia [A. Wilbur] ALS to [Anna M. C.] Barnes, March 10, 1863

Some Tract Soc. man who has been here & been
taken around by Mr. G. has written a long article
in the "Home Evangelist" about the Contrabands
here. There are many wrong statements, & perver
sions of facts, that I wish very much to an
swer it, but I have not the time. Dr. S.
says "it is most all lies." - But you see Mr.
G. is very highly spoken of in the article.
Dr. Breed says he goes twice a week to the Sec. of
War, & he assures him Mr. G. shall not be su
perintendent here, but he fears that Mr. Wat
son, the Assist. Sec. "will slip him in sometime."
Mr. Tatham thinks he stopped it when he
was in W. last. Mr. Cushman is the man
they are trying to get. But Mr. G. agrees with
Gen. Slough & Col. Wells in so many things, that
they may insist upon his appointment yet.

There is a new feature in affairs here.
It would take the pen of a ready writer to keep up
with the news. For a week or two past, every day there
are companies of 20 or 30 or 40 refugees from
Richmond coming in here. They comprise men