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LR W3 AC Va 1865
War Department
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Novem'r 11th 1865

Circular Letter

States that it is reported to the Comissioner and his Agents, that the Freedmen have been deceived as to the intentions of the Government. They have been impressed with the idea that lands will be given to them on New Years day. and directs all Officers & Agents of this Bureau to disabuse their minds of any such thought 

Recd 5 Dec 1865.

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