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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
STATE OF TENNESSEE.
Office of Assistant Commissioner and Chief Supt. of Education.
Nashville, Tenn., July 27" 1869

Bvt Maj Genl O.O. Howard
Comm'r Bu. R.F. and A.L.
Washington, D.C.

Sir:

I have the honor to report that I shall leave Nashville today to arrive Knoxville Tenn. on public business connected with my duties as Superintendent of Education for State of Tenn.

Will return to this station 31st of July or 1st of Aug 1869.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant,
C.E. Compton.
Bvt Lt Col USA
Supt of Education

Transcription Notes:
Date looks like 1868 but letters are from Aug-Dec 1869, so changed to 1869