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B. 67 R F & A L 1865

Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c:
Richmond Va: Sept: 2d, 1865

O. Brown
Col: and Asst. Commissioner &c:

States that he is receiving applications from friends in the North for Freedmen to be sent to there as laborers.
Capt. Wilder reports that thousands can be provided with good homes at fair wages: - asks to be informed whether he may hold out to them the prospect of these people being sent North by Government.

[[stamp]] BUREAU R.F. & A.L. * WASHINGTON * RECD SEP 4 1865 [[/stamp]]

War Department
Bureau of Refugees &c
Washington Sept 5th 1865

Respectfully returned to Colonel O. Brown Asst: Commissioner &c.
The present prospects is that transportation cannot be afforded. Contracts to furnish transportation will have to be made by persons engaging them.

By Order of
Major General Howard
Sam L Taggard
Asst. Adjt. General

{EB 68 1865}
Rec'd Hd. Qrs. Asst. Comm'r 9/7/65
2. B. 290.