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WAR DEPARTMENT.
BUREAU OF REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT SCHOOLS.
Washington, D.C., June 3d, 1869.

Dear Sir:

By circular No 6, 1869, it is made the duty of the General Superintendent to secure the cooperation of benevolent associations. To do this, facts of a popular character are needed. Please forward for use in my over correspondence either separately or interspersed (in your monthly reports) with narrative statements, interesting incidents, striking facts, or pleasant anecdotes, illustrations of any point in our work, trial in the character of freedmen and their children or of the white race. These should in general be brief and pithy, but detail is desirable in some cases.
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