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Mobile 20th. Sept. 1863
Genl Wager Swayne
Commanding &c

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Sir 
I take the liberty of writing you a few lines about the Mobile Medical College in consequence of a conversation held last night with my friend Col Forsyth who induces me to believe that you have been misinformed in this regard to certain facts.

You are I believe under the impression that the Freedmen's Bureau took possession of the Medical College, for a negro school, with the consent of the trustees of the Institution - This is not the case -

Soon after the U.S. troops took possession of Mobile, our Janitor & family, who lived in the College had charge of it, were ordered out by some one, I do not know who, informed that a medical school was soon to be put in operation there. I enclose you a Copy  of a letter written to capt W.A. Paillon & intended for your eye, but whether it reached you or not, I am not informed. This will explain what occurred between Genl C. C. Anderson & myself.

The possession has been a forceble one & my language has always been, give us back the building or comply with the agreement made with Genl Andrew. Although I think no legal

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