Letter From THE SECRETARY OF THE WAR, In Relation To The omission of the last Congress to appropriate money for the payment of claims of colored soldiers and sailors during the fiscal year of 1871-72. Wm. W. Belknap, Secretary of War. 1871. 3 pages. Letter from the Commissioner Bureau Refugees,Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, O.O. Howard. "By some misunderstanding the last Congress cut off $100,000 from my estimate, on account of payment of bounties and other claims of colored soldiers and sailors,..." Includes a table with "Estimate of appropriation required for service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1872, by the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands." Disbound. 6" tear at spine. Barely attached. Otherwise Very Good. Clean.