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War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Oct. 2d, 1865.

Col. O. Brown.
Comr for Virginia:

Colonel-

Your telegram of 29th Sept. has just been recd. None of our party took your valise, so it must have been stolen. The Genl. directs me to say that it will be necessary for you to look sharp and watch out for those orders. They may fall into the hands of parties who will use them wrongfully,
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