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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, August 26th, 1869.

SPECIAL ORDERS, }
No. 125 }

Extract.

IV. Bvt. Brig. Genl H.M. Whittelsey. is hereby releived as Chief Quartermaster of this Bureau and will turn over the records of his Division, and the public property for which he is responsible to Bvt Lieut. Col. J.M. Brown, who will receipt for the same.

General H.M. Whittelsey is assigned to duty as Acting Assistant Adjutant General to aid the present Act'g. Assistant Adjutant General, in the care of the records, and in the general business of the Adjutant Generals Office

This Order will take effect on the 1st day of September, 1869.

By order of Bvt Major-General O.O. HOWARD, Commissioner:

(Signed) E Whittlesey
Acting Assistant Adjutant-General.

A True Copy
J.A. Sladen.
Bvt. Capt. U.S.A. A.D.C.