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Office Sup't R.,F. & A.L.,
Sub-District Huntsville.
Huntsville, Ala. Feby 19th 1866

Maj Genl Wager Swayne
Com'r B.R.F and A.L.
Montgomery Ala

Genl,
I have the honor to write you a line by way of informing you of the Condition of things in this Dist. I have nothing of importance to communicate further than Generalities, I am running the affares of the Dist. to the best of my ability, and flatter myself that the buisness is runing nicely - I find difficulty in pleasing all parties and in face it is an impossibility. I find many White people who are trying to take every advantage of the ignorance of the Negro and Negroes who through their ignorance of what Justice is, taking every advantage of the Whites. I make it my sole object to meet the ends of Justice without distinction of Color or Condition or anticedence, and now shipping Rations for the last 12 days of Feby to the distitute of the different Counties as follows Blount 6,756, Cherokee 17,528 De Kalb 9,128 Franklin 2,952 Jackson 5,112 Lauderdale 7,968 Limestone 2,616 Lawrence 3,288

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Edited: removed Archive stamp per SI ignore, poor man should learn to spell