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0562

Office U. S. Military Telegraph,
WAR DEPARTMENT
The following Telegram received Washington, 115 AM. May 24 1865.
From Mobile Ala May 23 1865.
Gen Howard
Freedman Bu [[stamp]] U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH P.M. MAY 24 1865 [[/stamp]]

Are the arrangements, agreements & contracts made for the year by order of the Dept Commander to be changed till the end of the agricultural year. I respectfully recommend that they be not changed as all the benefits to planters & freedmen are dependent upon the contract made between them being fulfilled. I will give you a detailed account of matters here & in Louisiana when I return to New Orleans. 
DH 
Thos. W. Conway
Genl Supt Mi

Transcription Notes:
Last letters.... MS? (Mississippi?). Mil?