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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant COmmissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., August 1st, 1868.

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

Number of rations required "Fifty five thousand three hundred and twenty eight" (55,328), and "Sixty thousand" (60,000) Soup rations.

Number of rations required in
1. Sub. Dist. 5301
2. Sub. Dist. 465
3. Sub. Dist. 45,500 & 60,000 S. rations
5. Sub. Dist. 4,000
10. Sub. Dist. 62
Total 55,328 & 60,000 S. rations

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

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

By order of, and in the absence of Bt. Maj. Genl. George Stoneman, Comdg.
S. F. Chalfin
Ast. Adjt. Genl.