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Helena. Arks
February 2d, 1869.

Maj. General O.O. Howard
Commissioner
Washington, D.C.

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

General:

I am requested by Jos. Shafter, col'd, Guardian of William Bowman, son & heir of Napoleon Bowman (col'd), deceased, (whose case was reported on some time, he thinks, in November last by Maj. J.S. Watson, Agent Bu. R.F. & A.L., at this place:  Not having heard any thing from it since he fears the papers may have been miscarried: - ) to ask you to inform him at your earliest convenience, whether anything has been or can be done in his case - which he states is about as follows:  Some time in 1865, one Napoleon Bowman, col'd,