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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