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Office Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
District of Northern Alabama,
April 27th 1866.

Genl.
These papers were handed me by my friends with a request that I forward them to you, I declined to do so until Col Beacher came here  I send them now & wish you would file them subject to my order, I do not think the [[?]] amounts to much the effort coming from the source it is reported to eminate from. I trust Lt M has had more since then to send such an application but cant say as to that he and Goodfellow has a multitude of sins to cover in some way
Jno B. Callis
Bvt Col & Supt

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Edited: removed Archive stamp per SI ignore, WHERE DOES IT SAY TO IGNORE?