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Office U.S. Military Telegraph, WAR DEPARTMENT. The following Telegram received at Washington, 955 PM. Sept 30 1865. Charleston Sept 30 General O O Howard In case the owners of property who took part in this rebellion & approved of secession were expelled from their home by the confederate state authorities shall I regard their lands as abandoned answer please. R Saxton 35DH