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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, }
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, }
Montgomery Ala., Sept. 19th 1865.

Maj. Gen. C. R. Woods
Comdg. Dept. of Alabama,

Sir

I have the honor to request that Maj. J. B. Sample Asst. Adjt. Gen. U. S. Vols. may be assigned to duty in this Bureau and ordered to report to me.

I have made application to the War Dept for him and wish him assigned by you pending that request.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Servant
Wager Swayne
Brig. General
and Asst. Com'r