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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
Washington, Oct 10th 186 [[strikethrough]] 7 [[/strikethrough]] 8.

Bvt. Lieut Col. E. Beecher
Asst. Comr. for Alabama 

Colonel:
Please see to it that the rent of a room for the Freedmen's Savings Bank at Huntsville be paid while the Bureau lasts. It is the best educational institution that I know of. 

Very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
O.O. Howard
Major General, Comr.