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Office U.S. Military Telegraph,
WAR DEPARTMENT. 

The following Telegram at Washington, 830 PM. June 28 1865. 
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From Vicksburg, June 27 1865.

Maj Gen O O Howard,

At the instance of Col Thomas I requested that the Head Quarters of the Asst Commissioner of Freedmen of this State be transferred to Jackson, as my Head Quarters & that the offices [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] of the Provisional Gov & the other State Depts being located there, it will be much more convenient in everything connected with the Freedmen's Bureau if this be done. 

P G Osterhaus.
Maj Gen

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[[stamp]] MILITARY TELEGRAPH O.K. Jun 28 1866 [[/stamp]]