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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER,
Washington, D.C., July 30th, 1869.

Bvt. Lt. Col. J M Brown
D. O. &c.
Washington, D.C.

Colonel, 
You will please cause to be constructed an Ice Box, with capacity for 250 or 300 pounds of Ice. This Box should be lined with saw dust, and furnished with lock and key. It is designed for use at these Head-quarters, so that a supply of Ice will always be on hand

By command of Bvt Maj Genl O O Howard, Commsr
Henry M Whittelsey
C Q M. B R F & A L