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Office U.S. Military Telegraph,
WAR DEPARTMENT.

The following Telegram received at Washington, 1.15 PM. Sept 4 1865
DH From Chicago Sept 4

[[stamp]] U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH. O.K. Sept 4 1865 [[/stamp]]

Maj Gen O O Howard

Please ask Sanitary Commission to turn over what they design for freedmen to me as acting General Sec'y of the A.F.A. Commission answer

J.P. Shepherd

DH

they have already [[detained?]] to turn it over to me

Recd 1 35 PM

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I can't make much out of the faint two lines a little below the signature