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War Department, Provost Marshal General's Office, Washington, D.C., March 9th 1866 Major General O.O. Howard, Commissioner, Bureau of R.F.&A.L. General:- I am directed by the Provost Marshal General to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 7th instant, requesting a "list of Fifty Officers of the Veteran Reserve Corps, suitable for assignment to duty in" your "Bureau in the Southern States;" and in reply, to transmit to you the enclosed list. I am, General, very respectfully Your obedient servant, J W DeForest Captain V.R.C. and A.A.A. Gen'l.