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we could make to a fair distribution without such delay as would amount to a defeat of our movements for this month.
Finding it impossible to visit all these counties in person in time to secure them the benefit of this distribution I have prepared letters to the Judges of Probate in the counties named and will endeavor to send them through such channels as will secure their reception at the earliest moment. These letters were submitted to Col Callis and approved by him. That you may more fully understand my plan of operations I enclose a copy of one of these letters - you will learn from the letter which I addressed you from Nashville that the expected supplies will not be sent in bulk to the superintendent of the Bureau at this point, but to the Commissary to be drawn upon ration returns —
It will be difficult for some of the counties named to send to the depots on the