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0472

Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, November 10, 1869.

Brevet Major General O.O. Howard,
Commissioner Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Washington D.C.

Sir:
Referring to endorsement of the 3d instant, from your office, upon the application of Brevet Captain Chas. W. Keys, 2 Lieutenant, (unattached,) to be assigned to duty in your Bureau; I have the honor to inform you that this officer is badly wounded and was relieved at his own request, because he was unable to do the duty of officer of the day in the War