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Office U.S. Military Telegraph WAR DEPARTMENT. The following Telegram received at Washington, 930 PM Jany 19 1866 10 From Charleston Jany 19 1866 Gen O O Howard In determining the meaning of the word few in your letter of Dec 7th am I to take into consideration the freed people who have arrived at a plantation since that date? On some plantations the number of such is thirty or forty. A.H. Ketchum Capt AC QM H3 513 PA [[stamp]] U.S. MILITARY O.K JAN 20 1866 TELEGRAPH [[/stamp]]