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WAR DEPARTMENT
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
OFFICE CHIEF QUARTERMASTER,
Washington, D.C. May 11th 1868

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown,
Asst. Commissioner &c
Richmond Va.

General:

I respectfully transmit herewith Transportation Orders No. 418, for transportation of Laura Farmer, Destitute Freedgirl, issued on the recommendation of Genl. C.C. Sibley, Asst. Comr. &c State of Ga.  Please cause the transportation to be sent to the party named, through the proper officer of the Bureau of Halifax C.H. Va. 

By order of Maj. General O.O. howard,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Servant
Henry M. Whittelsey
Chief Quartermaster
Bu. R.F. & A.L.