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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, March 15th 1867.

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 38 }
Extract.

II.  The control of affairs of the Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the State of West Virginia is hereby transferred from Brevet Major Genl. J. M. Schofield, Assistant Commissioner of Virginia to Brevet, Brig, General C. H. Howard, Assistant Comr, of the District of Columbia who will immediately assume charge of the same.

All officers on duty in the Bureau, in West Virginia will report by letter to the Assistant Commissioner of the District of Columbia_

By order of Major-General O. O. HOWARD, Commissioner.
F. D. Sewall
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

Bvt. Maj. Genl. J. M. Schofield
Asst Commr, for Virginia

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