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War Department Washington City November 17,1869. The War Department and Bureaus will be closed on Thanksgiving day - thursday the 18th of November 1869 By the order of the Secretary of War. John Potts. Chief Clerk. Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. }