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Girard Alabama, July 6th 1866

Maj Gen Wager Swayne.
Montgomery
Alabama

Dear Sir,
Upon investigation we find that sometime about the departure of Col. Woodall's Regiment from Columbus Georgia, a quantity of Commissary Supplies, were shipped from Montgomery Ala, to Col. Woodall's Command, consisting of flour, pork, coffee, sugar, salt, rice and crackers. What quantity of each, we do not know, and deposited at the Depot in this place, of the Opelika Branch, of the Montgomery & West Point Rail Road. These supplies have by some measure been overlooked by the authorities, and the greater portion of them stolen, the crackers (about 50 or 60 boxes) being the only portion of them left.
We have positive evidence that an agent of the R.R. Co. is implicated, in the transaction, together with persons, who had hired themselves, to the Company, ostensibly as watchmen guards &c at the Depot, but who have made away with these supplies, a party implicated having confessed to us the whole transaction.
Criminal proceedings will be instituted against the guilty parties, so soon as we hear from you.
We desire to know what date these supplies were shipped from Montgomery and what quantity and to whom consigned. The agent here pretends that he is ignorant who made the shipment and to whom they were shipped and says his books show no evidence, as to where they came from or to

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