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WAR DEPARTMENT,
ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Washington, June 23d, 1866.

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 298. }

(Extract.)

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2. 2d Lieutenant F. H. Beecher, 3d U. S. Infantry, will appear before the General Court Martial, now in session at Raleigh, North Carolina, of which Captain J. H. Watrous, 103d U. S. Colored Troops, is Judge Advocate, as a witness in the case of the United States vs. Brevet Brigadier-General E. Whittlesey, Assistant Commissioner, Freedmen's Bureau.
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By order of the Secretary of War:

E. D. TOWNSEND,
Assistant Adjutant General.

OFFICIAL:

[[signature]] ^[[E D Townsend]] [[/signature]]
Assistant Adjutant General.

^[[Assistant Commissioner
Bureau R. F. and A. L. for North Carolina
thro' General Howard}]]

[[stamp]] BUREAU R. F. & A. L. * WASHINGTON. * REC'D JUN 25 1866 [[/stamp]]