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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, December 16th, 1868.

Bt. Col. J. R. Lewis
Assistant = Commissioner,
Atlanta Georgia

Col,
By direction of the Secretary of War, and in accordance with your request of   the appointment of Mr. N. Sellers Hill as an Officer in the State of Georgia made August 11th 1868, from this Office is hereby revoked to date Decr. 31st 1868.

By order of Maj.- Gen O. O. Howard Commissioner.

E. Whittlesey
Act. Asst. Adj. = General.

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t I put (blank) to indicate there is a void in the original letter. Leaving a space seemed to not lend itself to that knowledge if a reader is reading JUST the transcription.