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Head Quarters District of Central Virginia,
Charlottesville, Va. October 12th 1865.

Col O Brown,
Richmond.

Colonel,
I had the honor to address you yesterday on the subject of my being ordered to report to you for duty. Since then I notice an order in the NY Herald by which it is quite certain that I shall be ordered home before many days. Previous to your making application for me in August last, I had written to Maj Gen Howard asking him to get me assigned to him for duty. He advised me to wait until I was ordered home, when if I would notify him, he would apply to have me ordered to report to him. I have written to him to-day