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    "title": "Letters Received from the State of Louisiana; Number Ranges: 1-244 and 1-157",
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        "logicalDate": "1876-06-30",
        "month": 6,
        "year": 1876
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    "ocrText": "Disbursing Office,\nFreedmen's Branch, A. G.O.,\nSuly nyt1875\nAdjustant General U.S.Army\nMashington D.C.\nSind\nI have the honor to rufed the enclosed frapers in\nihe case of Heenry Davis late foot b. B. 1st Regmt U.S.C.\nTrwasury Certificate to 620.578. and state that an error\nhas been allowing this claim.\nFrom the statement of the man who presented\nhimself compared with the Confidential, it would\nseend that there must be two persons braing that name\nwho served in The Army, the letter of the b. baing\nthe samu but in different Pregimente.\nI thin that the mistake has bunn made/sy,comfoun\nding the jet Regmt U. which I belinve was\n, organized at Mashington D.b. with the jet La Nation\nGuards or yord Rigmt which was organized here"
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