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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

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