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66 Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 22, 1866 Sanderson Lieut GK Acting Depot Comm'r Mobile Ala Lieutenant I have the honor to forward herewith the estimate of rations to be issued to the destitute people in this State exclusive of the Huntsville District, in the month of July 1866 Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant O.D. Kinsman Bvt Major and A.A. Genl Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 22, 1866 /466 McKinstry Alex Esq Mobile Ala Sir By direction of Genl Swayne, I have the honor to forward herewith a memorandum which should have been given you before. Please acknowledge receipt. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant O.D.Kinsman Bvt Major & A.A. Genl. Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 22, 1866 56/173 Pierce Bvt. Maj. C W. Superintendent R.F. & A.L. Demopolis Ala Major In regard to the insane freedman John Hennessy confined in the Jail at Linden, the General has conferred with the Governor: It is understood that the authorities at the Tuscaloosa Asylum are ready to receive the man. Your furnish him transportation whenever it is thought best to send him. 67 Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant O.D. Kinsman Bvt. Major & A.A. General Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 21, 1866 /220 Commanding Officer 15th U.S. Infty The enclosed is respectfully returned for Signature. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant O.D. Kinsman B.V.T. Major & A.A. General Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 20, 1866 Crenshaw Hon Walter Sir I am as much obliged to you for your aid in bringing light, the nefarious transactions at Greenville, as I am chagrined at the existence of the facts. Had your aid come even earlier it would have been a material benefit to the Government as well as to the poor. Captain Arthur will return to Greenville this evening, and will take with him an officer and a file of men, with instructions to take into custody Captain Steinberg and his clerk at Garland and bring them to Montgomery for trial by Court Martial. As to their accessories I am advised that the offense is not criminal by the laws of the United States but that it is so by the State laws. I have instructed Capt Arthur that he will immediate possession of all Government Stores that can be found in the vicinity, and that if resisted he will at once proceed criminally against the holders in the name of the United States. And in this case I wish you to act as his
