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Bureau Freedmen
Selma Sept 19th 1865

C. Cadle Jr
Bvt Col. and A.A.G.

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

Colonel: I have the honor to report that military aid has been entirely withdrawn from the Bureau at this post, and that, having applied officially to post Aid Quarters for a soldier to be detailed on important business of the Bureau, namely to control and instruct a force of insubordinate negroes on a plantation six miles out. I was referred to Gen. Order No. 17 Hd Quarters Dept: Montgomery, which I presumed is in your possession. I cannot think the design of that order is to deprive the Bureau of all efficiency, as it massively does if so interpreted. There are various cases of inhumane flogging and other outrages reported, almost daily. It is often the case that there is not a magistrate on the [[Beat?]] where it happens, or that the magistrate or his near relatives are the