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Extracts from the Report of
J.W. Alvord, Inspector of Finances
and Schools, Under Special Order No. 28.

"War Department
"Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A.L.
Washington March. 17th 1866,

"To Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard,
Commissioner &c,


"General,

"At Harper's Ferry, an intelligence 
"office, for a few weeks, would, be of service in 
"getting some hundreds of surplus laborers out 
"upon the farms of the Shenandoah Valley and 
"into upper Maryland where they are greatly needed"

"The Freedmen's schools in that part 
"of Western Va. which is under the care of 
"the Asst. Commissioner at Richmond are prosperous, and 
"move on without unusual opposition. I visited 
"a number of them. But between Martinsburg 

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