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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Headquarters 4th Sub-District of North Carolina,
Office of Sub-Assistant Commissioner,

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Wilmington, N.C., Jan'y 2nd, 1868

Major Genl
O. O. Howard
Commissioner Bur R. F. and A. L.

General

I have the honor to request information in regard to claim of Mark Battums, late Private 2nd Reg't U.S.C.I. This claim was for back pay and Bounty and was forwarded by R B Moore Attorney of this city in July 1866.

I Am General
Very Respectfully
your obdt servant
Allan Rutherford
Cap't 44th U.S. Infantry
Sub-asst-Com;

Transcription Notes:
There are other documents that spell this person's name as Mark Bottoms.