Special orders no. 16 Headquarters, Department of Mississippi, Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 8, 1865. Paragraph 2. A Special Commission is hereby appointed to investigate the circumstances concerning the ownership, leasing and appropriation to the public service of the Turner and Quitman Plantations at Davis' Bend, Mississippi.

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