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Communication from Sub Asst Commr Miss in regard to Discharge papers of Hilton White
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abd Lands
Office Asst Commissioner
for the State of Mississippi
Vicksburg, Miss.
March 25th 1868
Bvt Major Thos H. Norton
Sub Asst Commr
Jackson Miss
Major
I am directed by the Asst Commissioner to request information relative to the discharge papers of Hilton White private Co. F to 47th U.S.C.I. left at the Office of Sub Asst Commr Jackson Miss for Collection in the year 1866
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Serv
Signed Merritt Barber
1st Lt. 34th Infy A.A.A.Genl.
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office Sub Asst. Commissioner
Jackson Miss April 30/68
Respectfully returned to the Asst Commr State of Miss with the information that after a careful search of the records of this office and after instituting inquiries in every direction that it would be possible to obtain information I am utterly at loss to state what has become of the Discharge papers of Pvt. Hilton White late Co F 47th U.S.C.I. There is no evidence now existing to show that it ever had been filed in this Office
Bvt Maj U.S.A.
Sub. Asst. Commr
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Communication from [illegible] [illegible] Commr Miss in regard to Discharge [illegible] of Hilton White
Bureau Refugees Freedmen [illegible] Lands
Office Asst Commissioner for the State of Mississippi Vicksburg Miss.
March 25th 1868
[illegible] Major [illegible] H. Norton
[illegible] Asst Commr
Jackson Miss
Major
I am directed by the Asst Commissioner
to request information relative to the
discharge [illegible] of Hilton White private
[illegible] left at the Office of
[illegible] Asst Commr Jackson Miss for
Collection in the year 1866.
Very Respectfully
[illegible]
[illegible] Merritt Barber
[illegible]
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands
Office [illegible] Asst Commissioner
Jackson Miss April 30/68
Respectfully re[illegible] to the Asst Commr
State of Miss with the information that
after a careful search of the records of this
Office and after instituting inquiries
in every direction that it would be
possible to obtain information I am [utterly at loss to state what has become of the discharge papers of Pvt. Hilton White lately
[illegible] There is no evidence now existing
to show that it ever had been filed in this office
[illegible] Maj [illegible]
[illegible] Asst. Commr
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PLEASE NOTE: I COULDN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO TAKE A SCREENSHOT.
