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Office Supt. Bu. R. L. & A. L.
District of Mobile,
Mobile, Ala., Dec. 5th, 1866.

Major Genl. Wager Swayne,
Asst. Com. B.R.F & A. L.,
Montgomery, Ala.,

General:
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of a letter dated from Hd. Qrs. Sub. Dist. of Alabama, Nov. 30th, 1866, and signed "O.D. Kinsman, Supt." directing me to confer with Judge Chamberlain of this city with regard to the case of one George Morrison, a negro, now under sentence of death for an attempted rape upon a white woman.

This case attracted my attention when the sentence was published in one of the city papers. I immediately commenced inquiry with regard to it, and found that the negro was in the hands of counsel, and that proceedings