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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Headquarters 4th Sub-District of North Carolina, Office of Sub-Assistant Commissioner, 2 L 168 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;
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