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R back 1 Sept
S. 29. Dept. Ala. 1865.

Head Quarters
Dept. Alabama
Mobile Sept 20 1865

Respy. returned to Brig Gen Wager Swayne, Com'r. Bureau Freedmen & Refugees, Disapproved -

A Colonel cannot be spared from his Regiment for duty in the Freedmens Bureau, this Officer was only detailed owing to the great demand for Officers to administer the oath of amnesty, and will be returned as soon as practicable to his Regt. when he should be at all times.

By order Maj Gen C R Woods
Jno H Wilson 
AAG

E.B. A 71.

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