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New Orleans La
July 18th 1871

Brig Genl O. O. Howard
Comd. Bureau R.F.&A.L.
Washington D.C.

Dear General

I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of yours of July 8th enclosing slip from the New Orleans Semi-Weekly Lousianian.
You can hardly imagine my astonishment when my attention was called to the first of the two articles for I was not
aware of the existence of such a paper.
I took no notice of the first article but when the second was published I called one the editor not to vindicate myself but for the reason suggested in your letter, i.e., that the Bureau might not be brought into disrepute through the actions of its officers and those "our