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U.S. Military Telegraph

June 26 1865
By Telegraph from War Dept 1865
TO Col O Brown  Comr

Send lists of lands that are abandoned and that have been confiscated within your District that you may need for loyal refugees and Freedmen.  Send description of land and name of former owner.  It is necessary to have this list here very soon to save the land, acknowledge receipt by telegram.
O O Howard
Maj Genl
Comr