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[Form 6.]
War Department, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Office Chief Quartermaster. 
Washington, May 13th, 1868 

Bvt. Brig. Genl O.L. Shepherd, U.S.A.,
Assistant-Commissioner, &c.
Montgomery Ala, 

General:
I respectfully forward herewith Transportation Orders No. 431, for transportation of Peyton Thomas & family, Freedpeople, the same having been requested by letter of Mr Geo. F. Browning, of Salem Mass., recommended by your endorsement of date May 7 1868. 

By order of Maj - Gen. O. O. Howard, Commissioner.

Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
Henry M Whittelsey
Chief Quartermaster, Bureau R.F. & A.L.