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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER.
Washington, D.C., Dec. 12, 1868

Bvt. Lt. Col. J. M. Brown
D.O. B. R F & A L.
Washington DC.

Colonel,
The Commissioner directs that you make arrangements with Mr. A. L. Barber, Principal, &c. at the Howard University, for the employment, under his direction, of the students, for the purpose of making and maintaining the fires in the several furnaces, by which these Head-quarters are heated — the services to be reported by you on the usual form —

Very Respecy
Your obdt. Sevt
Henry M Whittelsey
C Q M. B R F & A L.