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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office Assistant Sub Commissioner
Lauderdale Miss. Feb 27 1867

Major A. W. Preston
A. A. A. Genl. B R F & A L
District of Mississippi
Vicksburg Miss

Major 
In Compliance with your request of 21st inst I have the honor to inform you that I was appointed first Lieutenant Veteran Reserve Corps August 12th 1864- In April 1865 I was notified by Col. O. V Dayton 19th V.R.C. who was on duty at Anapolis Md as President of Court Martial that I had been appointed Capt. by Brevet, but I never received any official notice of the fact. 

I am Major
Very respectfully,
Your Obt. Servt
D M White Lt VRC & A S C

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