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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, D.C., Nov. 16th 1867

Maj. Gen. Wager Swayne
Asst. Commr. Ala

General
A copy of your Special Orders No. 75. dated Nov. 9, 1867 has been received at these Headquarters. The property therein named is supposed to be bureau property, & the disposition made of it is believed to be illegal.
Please therefore revoke the order, & direct the officers responsible for the property to take it up again (if it has been dropped) and hold it subject to the orders of the Commissioner.

By Command of
Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard
E. Whittlesey
A.A.A.G.

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