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46 as to the time when the depositions are to be taken Very Respectfully Your obedient Servant O.D. Kinsman A.A. General Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery June 4th 1866 /49 Howard Maj. Genl O.O. Commissioner to Washington D.C. General In reply to so much of your letter of 4th Ult. as directs me to make inquiry and report the number of persons requiring seed Corn and the quantity of land to be seeded, I have the honor to report that while lists according to the required form were immediately commenced and are still in active preparation, yet the result of the collateral inquiries has satisfied me that not only is the season already to far advanced for any useful distribution of seed grain this year but that no such distribution need be provided for. The grain crop of this year will I think reach nearly the average before the War both in quantity and quality and if not wholly consumed by immediate necessity for food will I think meet all future requirements for seed. That it will not be wholly consumed I infer from the sharp experience they have had of the necessity for seed from the fact that much of the persons who have grain crops have also a little cotton which will afford them relief before the corn which is their principle crop is ripe, and from the further fact that Governor Patton will leave in a few days for St Lewis and Chicago where it is hoped he will be able to purchase a large supply of corn with which to supplement the food issued by Government. I have thought it proper to express to you this conclusion, as soon as I arrived at it. The returns will nevertheless be forwarded as soon as they can be got in from the Counties 47 Very Respectfully Your obedient Servant Wager Swayne Major General Assist Commissioner Head Quarters District of Alabama Montgomery June 7th 1866 /312 Good Mr. Garland Agent B.R.F. & A.L. Claiborne, Monroe Co. Ala. Sir I have the honor to refer to you the enclosed copy of a communication received at these Headquarters yesterday. General Swayne desires that you investigate the case and report to these Headquarters such facts in regard to the case as you now are, or may become possessed of. Action in the case is desired to be taken at as early a moment as possible. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant O.D. Kinsman Bvt Maj & A.A. General. Headquarters District of Alabama Montgomery Ala. June 11th, 1866 /50 Whiting Capt. L.J. Act. Supt. B.R.F. & A.L. Mobile Ala Captain Please make a full statement in the case of the Negro, who was so badly beaten in one of the upper Counties of your district. The case you read to me while I was there and forward it to this office. One the case of the Sunken Steamers the General will not sell, until he hears from Washington where he has referred the matter. Please forward the lists as of property as soon as practicable. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant C Cadle Jr Bvt Col & A.A.G.
