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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, April 22 1867

Bvt Brig. Genl O. Brown,
Assistant Commissioner &c
General,
Please see General Schofield and request him to issue such an order as will make the rebels, who have burned down the school house at Petersburg Va., rebuild it. General Thomas did the same thing in Tennessee. 
Very Respectfully &c

O.O. Howard
Major General Commissioner &c