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Title: Benjamin Helm Bristow to E. D. Townsend, 18 October 1871
Date: October 18, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.03403
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Oct. 18, 1871.
Gen. E. D. Townsend,
Adjutant General U.S. A.
Sir:
I hand you herewith a dispatch addressed to the Attorney General at Yorkville, S. C., which I will thank you to have transmitted to him in cipher with as little delay as possible.
Very respectfully, &c.
B. H. Bristow, Solicitor General,
& Acting Attorney General.
send Tel. to the Att'y Gen'l