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U.S. MILITARY TELEGRAPH June 20 1865. By Telegraph from Wash'n D.C. 1865. To Col O Brown. Asst Com'r. Please find out immediately by estimate or otherwise the number of negroes at present in Amherst Co Va State proportion of able bodied &c report by telegraph. O.O. Howard M.G. 20 Will Gov Pierpont or Col Smith please furnish me such information as he may have in relation to this matter and oblige You obt svt O Brown Col Asst Commr Va
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