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attorney. Particularly in the case of the man Frens who I am advised has a quantity of Stores secreted in a wareroom which is closed. For this and whatever other service you can and will render Captain Arthur, your proper charge will have prompt, attention at this Office and you will receive our hearty thanks. An additional feature in the ugliness of this business is that a whole community must have known for many weeks of these 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 Cruickshank and of Col. Cadle, did not lead them to disclose the truth. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wager Swayne Major General. Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 24 1866 /75 Woods Bvt. Maj. Gen. Charles R. Commanding Dept of the South Macon Ga General With great regret I have to report to you that within a few days past I have assertained that Capt. F.O. Steinberg, V.R. Corps, Acting Assist Commissary at Greenville has with his 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 178th New York, who was Acting Assistant Commissary when a part of that regiment, was stationed there and not connected with 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 178th 69 New York, I have taken into custody and transferred to the U.S. Marshal. The penalities of the States are very severe. I am in hopes 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 Steinburg, 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 Wager Swayne Major General Head Quarters Dist of Alabama Montgomery June 25th 1866 /70 Nininger A. Ramsey Capt & Asst Adjt Genl. Department of the South Macon Ga Captain In reply to your 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 distribition in this District. Very Respectfully Your Obedient Servant Wager Swayne Major General
