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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 77 Maj Genl OO Howard U.S.V. Freedmans Bureau Wash D.C. JEC C&B Coan. 1043 ad
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.