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Office Commissary General of Subsistence,
Washington City January 20th, 1868.

General,

Your communication of the 18th instant, relative to the establishment of Soup Houses, and requesting that Assistant Commissaries be instructed to issue the requisite quantity of Beef &c, has been received. 

I enclose herewith a copy of Circular Letter of this date to Bvt Col Gen. Bell, C.S. Washington D C.  Similar letters were addressed to Bvt Lt Col C.B. Penrose. C.S at Richmond Va., Bvt. Brig. Gen. W.W. Burns, C.S. at Charleston S.C., Bvt. Lt. Col Thos. C Sullivan, C.S. at Atlanta, Ga, Bvt Maj J.G. Crane C.S at Vicksburg, Miss, Bvt Maj. Gen. A Beckwith C.S. at New Orleans, La, Bvt Maj W.H. Nash, C.S at Galveston Texas, and