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[Form 6.]
War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Office Chief Quartermaster,
Washington, March 26th, 1867.

Col. C.C. Sibley, U.S.A.
Assistant Commissioner, &c.
Macon Ga.

Colonel:
I respectfully forward herewith Transportation Orders, No. 616, for transportation of destitute freedpeople, the same having been requested by letter of Mr. M. L. Jones, forwarded to this office, approved by your endorsement of date March 20th 1867.

Very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
By order of Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard, Comm'r.
Henry M. Whittelsey
Bvt. Brig.-Genl., Chief Q. M., Bureau R. F. & A. L.