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Office Sub Asst Com'r B.R.F.A.L.
Tuscumbia Ala. May 12th 1868.

Bt. Brig. Genl. O.L. Shepherd
Asst. Com'r B.R.F.A.L.
Montgomery Ala. 

General:-
Special orders No. 45. dated Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Montgomery Ala May 1st 1868, directing me to process without delay to this place, and report to Lieut. Henry Sweeney Sub Asst. Commissioner B.R.F.A.L. for duty came duly to hand on the morning of the 6th inst. and I am sorry to inform you, that owing to my indisposition, caused from a wound received during the late war, I was unable to obey the order with the promptness I otherwise should have done, I however arrived at this place on the morning of the 9th inst. and in due time, as nothing pertaining to the office with which to commence business had yet arrived 
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