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Union Springs Ala Nov 14th 1865.

Col. C. Cadle
A.A.G.

Your letter directed to me bearing date 7th Inst in reference to certain grievances of the boy Abram and requesting me to furnish you with a statement of the facts in his case, has been duly received.
From the very nature of things it is utterly impossible for me to comply further than to detail these facts as developed on one side. I might give you general impressions but such will not do to act upon alone. My own opinion is, that the boy is clearly entitled to redress, but whether he will be able by evidence to counteract rebutting proof from the opposite side, I am not prepared to say. He has a good deal of evidence some quite good, but it is mostly incongruous and irrelevant. There seems to be a difficulty with him in making out clearly his case, and for this reason I sometimes believe he will not succeed. He states that he had an interview with you, and if so, you had an opportunity of discovering this fact, and perhaps learned about as much of his case as I have been able to do.
Some weeks since I took hold of his case, and refered it to your Bureau; The papers were returned to me with an indorsement that the department was pressed for time, and that his case must go before the Civil Courts. In that application I stated as explicitly as possible the

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