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Post Office Department
No 19348 
Washington D.C. 
October 26th, 1869.
[[stamp]]The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]
General:
I have the honor to request that you will please furnish me with a statement of the number of officers of the War Department and it's several Bureaux, who are now exercising the privilege of franking official correspondence.
I will be obliged if you will cause this information to be communicated as early as practicable.
I am very Respectfully,
Your Obdt. Servt
(sd) Jno. A J Creswell
Postmaster General.

Gen. W.T. Sherman
Secy. of War.