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Adjutant General's Office,
Washington Aug 25th 1865

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

General,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the communication forwarded by you to this Office from I W. Conway Asst Commr Refugees, Freedman &c, at New Orleans La. and to inform you in reply thereto that enlisted men detached for service in his Office are not entitled to extra pay.

I have the honor, General, to be
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
Samuel Beck
Asst Adjutant General

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Maj Genl OO Howard U.S.V.
Freedmans Bureau Wash D.C.
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Transcription Notes:
If you can't read a signature, go back a couple pages to see the summary a clerk has written on the back. This was transcribed as coming from SNUD BUCH, but I went back and saw it was written as SAMUEL BRECK.