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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Assistant Commissioner, District of Virginia,
Richmond, Va., November 30th, 1868.

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

Number of rations required "Forty five thousand eight hundred and sixty eight"(45.868) and "Forty thousand " (40.000) Soup rations.

Number of rations required in:
1.  Sub. Dist. 3751
2.  Sub. Dist. 2480
3.  Sub. Dist. 35675 & 40.000 Soup rations
5.  Sub. Dist. 3900
10. Sub. Dist. 62
Total 45.868 & 40.000 Soup rations

O Brown
Asst. Comr

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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