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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, October 24, 1868.

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

Bvt Col Edwin Beecher
Assistant = Commissioner 
Montgomery, Ala. 

Genl:
By direction of the Secretary of War, and in accordance with your request of October 19th 1868 the appointment of Mr. J W Dereen as an Agent in the State of Alabama made July 15th 68 from this Office is hereby revoked to date Sept 16th 1868, he having resigned. 
By order of Maj.-Gen. O.O. Howard, Commissioner
E. Whittlesey
Act. Asst. Adj.=General