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War Department Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, Office Chief Quartermaster Washington D.C. July 15th, 1869 Bt Lt. Col. C.E. Compton, U.S.A. Dept. of Education B.R.F.& A.L. Nashville Tenn. Colonel, Referring to your endorsement of 9th instant (E.B.p.329-9 enclosures) respecting Phoenix School House, Memphis, Tenn., you are respectfully informed that [[strikethrough]] as it [[/strikethrough]] the building referred to appears to have been constructed by this Bureau, it should be borne on the Bureau Property Returns. You will, therefore, take it up on abstract No, as heretofore constructed by the Bureau for the current month. The school authorities at Memphis will be permitted to use it for school purposes