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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, }
Montgomery Ala., Sept 7th 1865.

Capt I. B. Comstock
A.A.G. - Dist. Montg.

Captain:

I have the honor to request that Brevet Major Albert Koehne, Captain Co "B" 178 New York Vols. be assigned to duty in this Bureau and ordered to report to me.

Very respectfully,
Your obdt servt,
Wager Swayne
Brig. Gen. & Asst Com'r

Maj Koehne has been on detached service with the Army of the Tennessee for two years, has just returned to his Regiment and is personally known to me.  I greatly desire his services.