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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Sept 20th, 1866.

Bvt Maj. A.P. Ketchum
A.A.A.G

Major Yarmouth Cartwright of Montgomery County, Md (formerly a private in the 23rd Regiment U.S. Colrd Troops) state that when he was mustered out of service he purchased his arms & accoutrements for which he paid the sum of six dollars and that the sheriff in King George County lately took his gun from him stating that he had orders to take possession of all government property found in