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[Form 6.]
War Department,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER
Washington, April 16, 1867.

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

Colonel:
I respectfully forward herewith Transportation Orders,
No. 169 & 170, for transportation of Sallie Ayres and children, and Betty Campbell and children, freedpeople, the same having been requested by letters of Robt. Aldrich and Jesse Campbell-forwarded to this office, approved by your endorsements of date April 9'1867. You will please cause the ages of the children of Betty Campbell to be ascertained and noted upon the order, before transportation is issued, reporting the same to this office, that the record of the case at this office may be complete.

Very respectfully
Your obedient servant,

Henry M. Whittelsey
Bvt. Brig. Genl. & Chief Q.M Bureau R.F. & A.L.

By order of Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard, Comm'r