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Headquarters, District of Alabama,
Office Surgeon-in-Chief, B.R.F. & A.L.

Montgomery, Ala., April 25th 1868.

Sir,

I have the honor to report in obedience to Special orders No. 39, Bureau R.F. and A.L. State of Alabama, current series, that I have made a careful investigation into the management of the Freedmen's Hospital at Huntsville, Ala. under charge of Acting Assistant Surgeon E.P. Fitch. U.S.A. and find, with a single exception, that good judgement and a faithful regard to the comfort of the inmates of the Asylum, characterize its administration.

The building used as a hospital needs some repairs the cost of which will not exceed one hundred dollars. ($100-) The exception above referred to, is in the matter of expenditure for fuel, which was found to be unwarrantably large. The responsibility for this irregularity, in my opinion, rests equally with Dr. Fitch and Mr D.C. Rugg, the Sub-Asst Commissioner at that place; upon the former that he allowed it to be wasted, and upon the latter, in that he permitted his subordinates to purchase fuel indiscriminately and and approved the vouchers without properly