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Major General Wager Swayne,
Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands for the State of Alabama.

Sir
As Commissioner, appointed, under the authority of an act of the Legislature of Alabama, to aid you in the receipt and distribution of supplies, to the destitute of the State, I deem it proper, in view of the great destitution which exists throughout the State, and the repeated applications which we have been compelled to make for an increase in the estimate for supplies, to meet the urgent and increasing wants, of a suffering and starving people, (and to which the Government through the agency of your department has so generously responded) to submit to you some facts touching the present condition of the people of the State and the causes which have aided in