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Office U.S. Military Telegraph
WAR DEPARTMENT.
The following Telegram received at Washington, 930 PM Jany 19 1866
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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]]