Hd Qtrs 1st Separate Brigade
Relay House B&ORR Md Mar [missing text]

Sir
You will please inform [missing text] there is any enlisted man in this command, w [missing text] think competent to act as Hospital Steward. [missing text] who is sober, intelligent, reliable, & with a suff [missing text] knowledge of pharmacy-- The Genl informs m [missing text] there was an Hospl Steward attached to the 1s [missing text] By the Co Roles I see he has been dropped as [missing text] to a Co in the 1st Vet Del Vols. Is he at the fron [missing text] this vicinity & do you know the authority by which [missing text] so transferred?

Very Respectfully [illegible]
Yr Obt Servant
N.P. Rice Surg [missing text]

To
Robert B McKee- 1st Del Vols
Monrovia- Md