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[?] to order in the higher law to and, Colonel,and in this case, if I am violating a department order, I shall immediately return all horses taken, and endeavor to perform the impossibility of attending to the wants of our Bureau with footmen in counties from twenty to forty miles square.

I am, Colonel
very respectfully
your [?] [?]
R.S. Lacey
[?]

Col O. Brown
[?] Commissioner
Richmond