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Department of State
Washington 28th Sept 1871

To Major General
O.O. Howard.
Commissioner of the
Freedmans' Bureau.

General:
I have received a 
letter from Mr. U.Y.Y. Ledgewood
of Rio de Janeiro, who for
several years acted as
Charge'd'Affaires of
the United States there.
In that letter Mr. Ledgewood
states that inquiries
had been addressed to 
him by two of the most