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(Confidential)

Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va, August 17 1865.

Major General O.O. Howard.
Commissioner Bureau Refugees &c

General
I fear you will think my writing of letters like the "making of many books" has no end; but when I am annoyed beyond my power of endurance I naturaly look to you for relief.

The order mustering out five thousand (5000) more of our troops throws into confusion the affairs of the Bureau in nearly an entire District. I applied to Department Hd Quarters yesterday