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Personal 
War Department, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Washington, Aug. 27 1866. 

Maj. Gen J.M. Schofield 

Gen'l: 
I send you the enclosed not knowing whether my Adjt Genl, Genl Thomas, has communicated with you on the subject as ordered, he being now sick, & absent 

Respectfully
O O Howard
Maj. Genl Comr.