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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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