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Office Commissary General of Subsistence Washington City Jan'y 20th 1868 General, Your communication of the 18th instant. relative to the establishment of Soup Houses. and requesting that Assistant Commissaries be instructed the requisite quantity of Beef, &c, has been received I enclose herewith copy of Circular Letter of this date to Bvt. Col. George Bell, C.S. at Washington D.C.- Similar letters were addressed to Bvt. Lt. Col. C. B. Penrose, C.S. at at, Richmond Va Bvt. Brig. Genl. W. W. Burns, C.S. at Charleston S.C, Bvt. Lt. Col Thos. C. Sullivan, C.S. at Atlanta Ga, Bvt Major J. G. Crane, C.S. at Vicksburg Miss, Bvt. Maj. Gen. A Beckwith C.S. at New Orleans, La. Bvt Major W. H. Nash, C.S. at Galveston, Texas, and Bvt. Brig. Gen. M. P. Sewall C.S. at Louisville Ky.
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Note to transcribers: the double s in cursive looks like an fs combination, it is not - just the style of the day.
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