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Quartermasters General Office
Washington & Co
December 21 1865

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R Brinkerhoff
Col Depot QM
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Col. R Brinkerhoff
Depot. Q M
Cincinnati
Ohio

Colonel.

Your letter of the 15th instant enclosing a requisition on your depot for sewing materials &c, for issue to Freedmen, has been received.

In reply you are respectfully informed that the articles called for in the requisition cannot be issued under the authority of General Orders No 147 current Series, unless specially authorized by the Secretary of War

The requisition has been referred to Maj Genl Howard, Com Bureau of R F and A L, with an endorsement to the above effect.

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