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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., July 3rd 1868.

Estimate of rations required for issue to "sick in Hospitals" and to destitute "Refugees and Freedmen" in the District of Va for the month of July 1868.

Number of rations required "Fifty five thousand, three hundred and fifty eight" (55.358) and "Sixty Thousand" (60.000) Soup rations. 

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

Number of rations required in:

1. S.D. 5.456
3. S.D. 45.500 & 60.000 Soup rations
5. S.D. 4.340
10. S.D. 62
Total 55.358 & 60.000 Soup rations

Bvt. Maj: W.A. Elderkin, Capt. & C.S. U.S.Army. will issue the rations included in the above estimate.
George Stoneman Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S. Army Comd'g.

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