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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Washington, Oct 4th, 1865.

General

[[stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES[[/stamp]]

Rev. M. Alvord of the Am. Tract Soc. has ordered one thousand spelling books to be sent to you at Montgomery.

Should they not reach you soon he thinks it would be well for you to write a note relative to them to Dr. W.C. Child Sec'y Am Tract Soc. 28 Cornhill Boston.

Very Respectfully
Your Obdt. Svt.
H.M. Stinson
A.D.C.

Brig. Gen. Wager Swayne
Montgomery Ala.