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Huntsville Ala Jany 16th 1866 Bvt Maj. Genl. Wager Swayne Asst Com'r Bureau Refugees Freedmen &c Sir I regret to have to report that the supplies for this District to meet your requisition have not yet arrived Col J. C. Read Chief Com'g at Nashville assured me that adequate supplies had been shipped to this point to meet your requisition and that the proper officer of the Bureau could draw them upon ration returns from the Commissary at the place. Requisitions being made here the officer replies that he has not supplies to meet them. The nonarrival of these supplies has retarded my movements and disappointed us in our arrangements for distribution- Col Callis Supt. of Freedmen &c at this place informs me that a telegram has