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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, July 2d 1867.

Maj. Gen. Wager Swayne
Assistant Commissioner.

General;
I am directed by the Commissioner to inform you that a letter has been received at this office from J.R. Shipherd Esq, Sec'y, Amn. Miss. Assn. recommending Mr. J.B. Webb now an agent of the Bureau in Arkansas, as a suitable person to fill the place of Mr. Branch who has resigned, at Mobile; and to ask if the transfer of Mr. Webb to that place would be agreeable to you.
Very respectfully
Your Obt Servant
F. D. Sewall
A. A. A. General
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