Black American Freedmen: Hawkins Wilson letter to the “Chief of the Freedmen’s Bureau”

#BlackHistory Hawkins Wilson to the “Chief of the Freedmen’s Bureau, at Richmond,” VA, May 11, 1867; 

“Dear Sir, I am anxious to learn about my sisters, from whom I have been separated many years. I have never heard from them since I left Virginia twenty four years ago,” Wilson wrote from Galveston, Texas, on May 11, 1867.” “I am in hopes that they are still living and I am anxious to hear how they are getting on. I have no other one to apply to but you and am persuaded that you will help who stands in need of your services as I do. I shall be very grateful to you if you oblige me in this matter.”

“Wilson’s letters went unanswered. Hawkins Wilson, born into slavery and torn from his family as a boy, wrote several to the Freedmen’s Bureau in hopes of locating his siblings.” https://eogn.com/Hawkins Wilson

Link to letter; https://digitalprojects.rice.edu/wrc/dick-dowling/items/show/2393