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Office Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Refugees, }
Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, }
Montgomery Ala., Dec. 27th 1865.

Major General George H. Thomas
Commanding &c.

General
Enclosed I have the honor to transmit a copy of Circular No. from the War Department Office of this Bureau.

In compliance with this Circular and in pursuance of the conversation I had with you when here, I have to ask that you will direct the proper Officer of the Commissary Department to place at the disposal of Chaplain T. M. Goodfellow, at Huntsville, Agent of this Bureau for North Alabama, supplies sufficient for a daily issue of five thousand (5,000) destitute rations.

This estimate is the result of careful examination; Governor Patton who will see you in a day or two on other business, will explain that it does not go beyond the requirements of humanity.  I venture to trouble you in person, because you have been here and I do not know your chief Commissary.
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