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Montgomery, Ala. January 6, 186 [[strikethrough]] 5 [[/strikethrough]] 6.

Brevt Major General
Wager Swayne:
Assistant Commissioner Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands.

Sir,
I beg leave to bring to your notice the needs of the destitute people of Randolph County, in this State. The report made by the Probate Judge of the County shows that fifteen hundred families, embracing more than five thousand persons, are in need of immediate aid. 
Randolph County was devoted to the Union, and to keep the people in subjection to the bureaucracy, it was thought necessary to maintain a rebel cavalry force there all through the wars. Such a force was kept there up to the time of the general surrender, and commanders always discriminated in their foraging against the Union people. The fact that a man was away in the service of the United States, or was opposed to the rebellion, was deemed a sufficient warrant for taking the last piece of meat from his smoke-house, and the last ear of corn