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War Department
Adjutant Generals Office

Major General O.O. Howard
Commissioner of Bureau of Refugees. Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: 
Washington D.C.

Sir:
Your communication of the 4th instant, requesting that Captain E.D. Mason, Assistant Adjutant Genl: of Vols: to be assigned to duty in your Bureau to report in person to Colonel O. Brown, Assistant Commissioner at Richmond, Va, has been received.

In reply I have the honor to inform you that your application is disapproved for the present.

Should Captain Mason be relieved from duty with the troops with which he is now serving, he will be ordered to report to you as requested.

I am Sir
Very respectfully 
Your Obdt. Servant.
(sgd) R. Williams
Assistant Adjutant General

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