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Office Sub Asst. Com. B.R.F & A.L.
Sub-District of Mobile,
Mobile, Ala, Sept. 11th 1864.

O.D. Kinsman, Sub. Asst. Com.
Montgomery, Alabama,

Sir:-
I have supposed that the closing portion of your letter of September 7th was intended as censure of my self. I have therefore, the honor to state that my private note to Maj. Greene was not written until Gen'l Shepherd had told me that he should make official protest against Gillette's detail, and it would not have been written otherwise at all. I expressed in this private note my idea (possibly erroneous) that Gillette was not the fittest detail that could be made for this office: I did not desire it for official record and did not expect it would receive official notice. 
I regret there should have been any complications caused in your office by this private note. though it would seem that they would more naturally have been caused by the official protest of Gen'l Shepherd.
Very respectfully. your obt. Servt.,
Geo. H. Tracy
Capt. & B. Maj. US.A., & S.A. Comr.