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War Department
Adjutant General's Office.
Washington December 1st 1865

Major General O.O. Howard. U.S.V.
Commissioner "Freedmens Bureau" &c
Washington, D.C. 

General

I have the honor to inform you that in consequence of Captain P.R. Hambrock, 9th Regt. Veteran Reserve Corps being on special duty, under the orders of Major Genl. Augur, and from which he cannot be released at the present time, without detriment to the public interest,  So much of Special Orders No. 623 paragraph 16 current series from this office, as relates to him, has been suspended until further orders.

I have the honor to be, General
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
(signed) Thomas M. Vincent
Assistant Adj't. General

Official copy

Respectfully furnished for the information of Colonel O. Brown, Asst. Com'r &c

Max Woodhull
Asst. Adj't General

Transcription Notes:
May 1867–Dec. 1868 Subassistant Commissioner Paul R. Hambrick Jan.–Apr. 1869 Assistant Superintendent of Schools Paul R. Hambrick Major Genl. Augur: He established a solid but unspectacular Civil War record in the Union Army. He was promoted to major general of volunteers for his conduct in action in August 1862 at Cedar Mountain, Virginia, where he received serious wounds. He served in the New Orleans campaign and the siege of Port Hudson before receiving command of the Twenty-second Army Corps and the Department of Washington in October 1863, a command that he maintained until the end of the war. In 1865 Congress brevetted Augur major general for his services. The next year he was transferred from command of the volunteer service and made colonel of the Twelfth Infantry. He was made brigadier general, regular army, in 1869. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-15 09:46:07