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War Department.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Washington D.C. June 29. 1865

Col O. Brown
Asst. Commissioner &c.
Richmond Va.

Col.
I am directed by Major General O.O. Howard, Chief of Bureau &c to acknowledge receipt of your Circular to the Freedmen of Virginia, and to say it meets with his entire approval. He has however taken the liberty to change the wording in two or three sentences which you will observe, and which he suggests you adopt. Please send when printed a number of copies to this bureau for distribution to other Commissioners. Returned herewith please find the Circular. Your form for procuring data relative to the tracing of members of families and marriages &c is also approved.

Very. Respectfully