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A.887.1869.

P.O. Department
Contract Office
Wash'n Aug 24, 1868

W.L. Nicholson
Topographer

States in reply to request from Major Brown of Aug 23, that the distance by shortest mail route from Baltimore Md. to Hagarstown Md. is 102 miles.

RECEIVED * A & D. OFFICE D.C. * AUG 25 1869