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Bureau Freedmen Selma Oct 2d 1865 C. Cadle, Jr. Brevet Col. and A.A.G. Colonel: I have the honor to report that I have leased an excellent plantation, about two and a half miles from the city, well furnished and in good order. Accompanying this, I send the lease for your formal approval, although under your instructions I have taken the approval for granted, and have proceeded to occupy the plantation. Pressing need is beginning to be shown for such a plantation in every county. I have just returned from Marion in Perry County, where I set on foot measures to secure a farm near that place. It might be well to settle the probabilities of the confiscation of Gov. Moore's plantation, which would answer so far as situation is concerned. I shall next proceed to Camden, near by which a fine plantation has been offered for that county (Wilcox). Montevallo in Shelby