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In accordance with S.O. No. 22, Office Act Asst. Com. Bureau of R. F. & A. L. dated Augusta, Ga. Nov. 27th, 1865, I proceeded to visit the post offices  at Atlanta, Macon & Milledgeville, Ga. for the purpose of finding & bringing to Augusta, certain official documents supposed to have been mailed [[strikethrough]] on the [[/strikethrough]] at Milledgeville on the 23rd day of November, 1865, by his Excellency the Provisional Governor of Georgia, & directed to Brig. Gen. Tillson, Augusta. Failing to find the missing documents at any of the abovenamed offices, I called on Gov. Johnson, who informed me that he had sent the said documents by a courier, a faithful & trustworthy young man, to the Adjutant General at Macon, to be forwarded from that office through the usual channel. While I was in Milledgeville, Lieut Holsted, 176th N. Y. Vol. Inf. read to me a telegram which he had received from the Adjutant General at Macon, stating that the said papers had not been in his the Adjt. Gen's office to his knowledge. Lieut Holsted stated that the courier by whom the papers were sent to Macon, declared that he presented them to the Adjt. Gen., with Gov. Johnson's request that they be duly forwarded; and that the Adjt. Gen. in an indifferent manner said, "All right, chuck them into the box there," (meaning the mail box, or words to that effect.

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