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HEAD QUARTERS ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
DISTRICT OF MARYLAND AND DELAWARE

Baltimore Jan 18" 1868.

Major Genl O O Howard
Com'r Bu. R.F. & A.L.
Washington, DC.

The duties of this Office will necessitate my being in this City every day - The facilities of the Bureau will make me more easily to visit Fort McHenry - then to come daily from there - As I have a Reg't assistant to assist me - will you therefore oblige me of so arranging matters, that I will be enabled to draw my commutation for fuel & Qrs - as the Quartermaster seems to hesitate on that point -

Your Obedient Servant
J.H. Brooks
Col 4 Arty -
A.A. Gen'l.