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Bureau of Refugees and Abandoned Lands,
For the States of Missouri and Arkansas.

St. Louis, Mo. Oct 3rd 1865

Maj Genl O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Washington D.C.

General

As soon as reports arrived from Sub. Dists for Sept. I propose to move these offices to Little Rock - as I have before advised you -

I respectfully ask permission to go myself via Milan Ohio and spend about a week where my wife has for some time been in extremely delicate health it is for this reason that I make this request -

I am General
Very Respy Yours Obt Svt
J. W. Sprague
Brig Genl Asst Comr.

Transcription Notes:
Milan Ohio - village in Ohio John Wilson Sprague, Brig Genl USV 1864