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Telegram
War Department
Adjutant General's Office
Washington June 5, 1874
Lieutenant General P.H. Sheridan
Commanding Division Missouri
Chicago, Ill.

Secretary of War authorizes the additional sum of twenty-five hundred (2500) dollars asked for in your letter of May twenty-fifth (25) for Black Hill Expedition, to be drawn from Army Contingencies. Quartermaster General so informed.
Sgd S.D. Townsend
Adjutant General