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Office Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, 
Sub District of Greenville,
Greenville, Ala., March 18th 1867

Colonel Kinsman

Dear Sir:

I was very disagreeably surprised at receiving your answer to my application for an order to go to Selma.

You must have been aware that my detail was only for temporary duty, and the General named ten or fifteen days as the probable duration of mu stay, at the same time saying that I could make up my mind to remain permanently, he would like to have me do so. 

I had come to the conclusion that it was the design for me to remain at any rate, and asked permission to go back and get my things from Selma, and arrange for a permanent stay. Which request was denied. I cannot conceive of anything more reasonable than such a request. If my detail had called me to a permanent [[strikethrough]] ly [[/strikethrough]] position, I should have come away from Selma prepared to remain, but as it called