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Office Post Commissary
Selma Alabama June 12th 1867

General Wager Swayne U.S.A.
Commanding Dist. of Alabama
Montgomery Ala General

I have the honor most respectfully to inform you that since the discharge of William E. Parsons Jr. from the Q.M. Dept. B.R.F.&A.L. May 15th 1867 it has come to my knowledge that he had made a practice of of taking stores from the Commissary Storehouse in small quantities while I was on leave of absence North.- On my return and on the first intimation of such transactions. I discharged him and began to investigate the matter fully. I found my C.S. stores short and learned he had been taking commissary stores from the storehouse and giving them to his boarding master in payment for his board. The boarding master was called upon and when asked in relation to the matter stated that he had received commissary stores from said Parsons in payment for his board, and produced a bill of settlement between himself and Parsons (in the handwriting of the latter) and received from him. - This paper is in my possession. it enumerates the number of articles of stores - I charged