Freedmen's Bureau Records: W. Storer How to Orlando
Brown, September 16, 1865
Summary:
How requests that the Bureau pay the travelling expenses for several destitute
blacks who wish to join family members elsewhere. The letter's wrapper details
the channels through which the request passed.
Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned
Lands
Headquarters Sixth District Virginia
Colonel O. Brown Assistant Commissioner
Richmond, Virginia
September 16th 1865
Staunton
Colonel
I have the honor to apply for transportation for the following named persons, to the places and for the reasons set opposite their names.
Violet Ward, 2 children - colored to Holmes County Mississippi Her husband & one child, live in Mississippi one child here & one in Richmond Catherine Johnson, one child - Colored to Richmond, Va She has five children in Richmond Mahala Montgomery & four children - Colored to Clear Spring - 11 miles from Hagarstown Maryland She is unable to support herself here, & has relations there who will support her. Nancy Ellet & 2 children - Colored To Fauquier County Virginia has 4 children there & former owner
These persons are all destitute, unable to pay their traveling expenses themselves.
I am, Colonel
Very Respectfully,
Your Obedient Servant
W. Storer How Captain & Assistant Quartermaster
Superintendent 6th District
Virginia
