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Officer Sub Commissioner Freedmen
Brookhaven Miss May 11th 1866

Capt C.R. Tyler.
A.Q.M. Bu R.F. & A.L.

Capt
Your letter of the 8th March in regard to quarters is received. You say that Capt Gardner reports a building with their rooms hired as an office & quarters, which are not the facts only one small room is rented for an office it is about ten feet long & five wide formerly used as a Confectionery. When I rec’d your letter I read it to him and asked him to explain why he had reported a building with three rooms, when such was not the fact and this was the Explanation, (Capt Gardner boards at the Hotel, and has his sister with him) the room that he occupies, one that his sister occupies, and the third is (all in the hotel) the dining room. Now, I would respectfully ask if that is to be considered, as a building rented for the use of all the officers for quarters to (over)