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War Department
Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Ab'd Lands
Washington D.C. July 12th 1868
Bvt Brig Gen J. Hayden
Asst Commissioner, Ala. 

General:
The Commissioner directs that you assign to Athens Ala. a good honest, and efficient officer or agent, who may act as disbursing Officer, to pay bounties to Colored Soldiers, Order him to report, at once by letter to B. B. Gen'l Geo. W Ballock. Chief Disbursing Officer of this Bureau. 

Very Respectfully
(signed) E. Whittlesey
A.A.A.G. 

Official Copy
(Sg'd) Geo Shorkley
Capt 15th Inf Bt Maj. USA
A. A. A. G. 

A true Copy
D.C. Rugg
Sub Asst Commissioner