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Office Supt B.R.F. & A.L.
Demopolis Ala Feb 4" 1867

Maj Genl Wager Swayne
Asst Comr of R & F
Montgomery Ala

General
Perhaps the circumstances referred to in the following statement have already been investigated by the proper authorities, but it being a matter of such importance I desire to call your attention to such evidence as I have on the subject.
It has been currently rumored here for sometime that many negroes are being taken from this to Foreign Countries and sold as Slaves, and but a few days since. I was told by a reliable gentleman formerly from the North, that he positively knows of the existence of an organization composed of both Federals and Confederates, for the purpose of transporting freedmen from this Country to Brazil. He says that their method of procedure is to hire the freedmen ostensibly for the purpose of cultivating plantations in Louisiana and Texas and to take them to a point on the Gulf about a hundred miles below New Orleans from whence they are shipped