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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., April 2nd 1868.

Estimate of Rations required for issue to sick in Hospitals and to destitute Refugees and Freedmen in the District of Virginia, for the month of April 1868.

Number of Rations required Forty two thousand five hundred (42.500).

O Brown
Bvt. Brig. Genl. Vols.
Asst. Comr.

Bvt. Maj. W.A. Elderkin, Capt. and C.S. U.S.A. will issue the rations included in the above estimate.

J M Schofield
Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S.A.
Comd'g