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WAR DEPARTMENT,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
DISTRICT KENTUCKY, TENNESSEE, AND NORTH. ALABAMA
Nashville, Tennessee August 7th 1865
CIRCULAR}
No. 5}

A Government Claim Agency, for the collection of all claims due from Government to the heirs of deceased Colored Soldiers, is established at the Office of the Assistant Commissioner, Nashville, Tennessee.

Chaplain John Lawrence, 15th U.S. Colored Infantry, having, in obedience to orders from Major General Thomas, commanding Military Division of the Tennessee, Reported to the Assistant Commissioner for orders, is hereby assigned to duty in the charge of the Claim Agency

CLINTON B. FISK
Brig. Gen. Ass't Com.