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the Army & not for citizens either white or black, but if the necessary quantity could be loaned to Your Bureau, the cash price of which could be reimbursed to the Department making the loan out of any funds or appropriations that may hereafter come into the hands of the Bureau. The response to the Government would be much less to clothe & assist these people to prepare for winter by building the useless huts in which to live, which they can do, (the Government only furnishing the necessary tools & teams to haul logs there to each Hospitals, & keep a large supply of Dungarees, Medicines, Hospital Clothing, Nurses & rations & One of these policies must be persuade or leave these unfortunate beings to perish by the hundreds from exposure = This Clothing need not be the best in quality - but of the irregular or second class, if the Government have any such on hand =

In order to extend to the dead of this people, the most common rites of burial, money must be had to purchase Common lumber, out of which to make coffins & nails to put them together, neither of which can now be done by the Quarter Master's Department without further orders on the subject =