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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER,
STATE OF MISSISSIPPI.
Vicksburg, Miss., April 16th 1868.

Major Genl. O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington, D.C.

General,
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of communication dated 10th inst from your office, relative to certain transportation issued by virtue of Special Orders #59, par I C.S. from this office and to say in reply that the same was issued through inadvertence and that the issue of transportation in like cases will not again occur; S.O. #59. par I has been revoked and the transportation ordered to be cancelled.

Very respectfully
Your Obdt Servant
Alvan C Gillem
Bt Major Genl. U.S.A.,
Asst. Com'r Miss.

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