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furnished with such assistance
as will be [illegible] - /The young man
here offer voluntary aid after 4 1/2
oC PM / At most often head
quarters such as Baltimore. Pitts.
-burg. Cincinnati. Cairo &c to
gether with the plans of [tempo?]-
-[rary?] encampment in the interior
as at Chicago. Elmira. Phil,
N. York & Boston the resident as-
-sociations will. it is hoped
provide for the reception of supplies
& distribution without expence to
the Commission except it be for
freight & expassages & such like
incidentals - But here where
an enormous army will most
likely lie in winter quarters within
from 3 to 20 miles of the city (we
do not object to a victory & "on to Richmond"
but the base not the plans of op-
-erations would then be changed) there