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Blank No. 1.
THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

The rules of this Company require that all messages received for transmission, shall be written on the message blanks of the Company, under and subject to the conditions printed thereon, which conditions have been agreed to by the sender of the following message.

THOS. T. ECKERT, Gen'l Sup't. New York   
WILLIAM ORTON, Pres't,} New York 
O. R PALMER, Sec'y}
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Dated Balto Nov 3 1869 450 PM
Received at Cor. 14th St. and Penna. Avenue 450th 

To Gen H.M. Whittlesey
From freedmen Bu
Please ask Secty. [[strikethrough]] W [[/strikethrough]] Belknap to order me to Hampton Va on public duty to return Saturday

O.O. Howard
M. Genl.
214 Linden
16. W 32 Colhet 
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[[stamped]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamped]]

[[left margin]] $43.32 Mileage paid on the Approval of the Sec of War to this request to go to Hampton Va. Nov. 8th 1869 [[/left margin]]