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94 community must have known for many weeks of the scandalous transactions, and only you and one other have taken any pains to bring the matter to my notice, although the poor were being robbed of daily bread. Even the visits of Mr Cruikshank and of Col Cadle did not lead them to disclose the truth. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant (Signed) Wager Swayne Major General. Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery, Ala. June 24 1866 [[left margin]] Woods. [[/left margin]] Bvt Major General Charles R Woods. Command'g Dept. of the South. Macon, Georgia. General, With great regret I have to report to you that within a few days past I have ascertained that Captain J.O. Steinberg, V.R. Corps Acting Assist. Commissary at Greenville, has with clerks and assistants been guilty of the most shameless and fraudulent sales of subsistence stores, extending over a period of more than two months and amounting in the aggregate to several thousands of dollars. These transactions also implicate a Lieutenant of the 198th New York, who was Acting Assistant Commissary when a part of that regiment was stationed there, and not connected the the Bureau I have taken Captain Steinberg into custody, and have him in confinement here. Two of his clerks, one the old commissary sergeant of the 198th New York I have taken into custody and transferred to the US Marshal. The penalties of the statute are very severe. I am in hopes 95 by its aid I can compel the purchasers to make the Government entirely whole. I shall have to ask you for a Court Martial to try Captain Steinberg, which as he will make no defence, and only one or two witnesses will be required had I think better sit either here or at Mobile, as you may see fit. I have cut down by a deduction of two fifths the estimate of rations for next month, and I hope that within two months it can be substantially done away with. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant (Signed) Wager Swayne Maj. Genl. Headquarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 25 1866 [[left margin]]Nininger[[/left margin]] A Ramsey Nininger Capt and Act. Adj. Genl. Department of the South, Macon, Georgia. Captain, In reply to you communication of the 20th inst. I have the honor to state that sixty (60) copies of General orders Dept. of the South, will be required for distribution in this District Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant (Signed.) Wager Swayne Major General
