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Telegram.

New Orleans, La.
January 5" 1867.

Maj General Chas. Griffin
Com'dg

Major Lathrop is relieved from all connection with the Freedmens Bureau, and from Staff duty in the District of Texas. He will turn over to Gen. Kiddoo, all property pertaining to that Bureau, and return to duty with his regiment.

Furnish Gen. Kiddoo with copy of this dispatch.

By command of Maj. Gen. Sheridan
(Signed) Geo. L. Hartsuff
A.A. General

Head Quarter District of Texas
Galveston, Texas, Jan. 1" 1867
Official Copy respectfully furnished for information of Gen. Kiddoo. A.C. - Bu. R.F. and A.L. Galveston, Texas.

A.H.M. Taylor
2nd Lieut 17" U.S. Infantry
A.A.A. General

Transcription Notes:
Embossed logo in upper left (possibly reading CONGRESS) Has A.H.M. Taylor been verified? Looks like A.S. M. Sayles or Saylor to me. (question in to SI) -- Beth Yes, it is A.H.M. Taylor -- Donna