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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, July 10th, 1869.

Brevt. Lieut. Col. C.E. Compton
Supt. Education, Nashville Tenn

Colonel:
I am directed by the Commissioner to acknowledge the receipt of your endorsement of the 6th instant on papers relating to the appropriation of$2000. for the "Tennessee Manual Labor University" at Murfreesboro. In accordance with your recommendation, and in view of all the information received concerning the state of the affairs of that institution, you are hereby directed to withhold the payment of the appropriation until further orders from this office.
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant
Henry M Whittelsey
Actg Asst. Adjt. General