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

Bvt. Lieut. Col. J. M. Brown
D. O. B R F &  A L.
Washington, D. C.

Colonel,

The Commissioner directs that you cause to be put up, with as little delay as possible, the largest and best stove you have on hand, in the room at these 
Head-quarters occupied by the Record Division

Very Respecty
Your Obdt Servt
Henry M Whittelsey
C Q M. B R F A L

Transcription Notes:
changed "store" to "stove"