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E and M 57 S.D. of M 1868

Hd Qrs. District of Alabama
Bu of R.F. & A. Lands
Montgomery Ala. Jany 31/68
Feby 8/68

Shorkley George 
Capt 15 Inf. Bvt. Maj U.S.A.
A.A.Q.M.

Requests report of the probable number of persons in Mobile who will need assistance from the Soup Houses ordered to be established.


Office Bureau Refugees & Freedmen
Mobile Ala
Feby 3. 1868

Respectfully referred to Hon. G. Horton, Major of Mobile, who is requested to endorse, hereon, his estimate of the number of whites who will probably require support

James Gillette
Brevt Major USA
S.A. Comr


Mayor's Office
Mobile, Feby. 6. 1868

From the numerous applications made to me for relief, and the information I have been able to get from others, I am of the opinion that there several hundred white people, that need relief at the present time.

G. Horton
Mayor

E and M 61 SD of M 1868.

Office Sub-District of Mobile
Bu. of R.F and A.L.
Mobile, Ala. Feb. 8th 1868

Respectfully returned to Asst. Commissioner State of Alabama  It is thought that there are about (500) five hundred persons in the city and county who require assistance 

It is impossible to estimate the number living in the country who will require assistance.

James Gillette
Capt. 15th Inf Bvt. Maj U.S.A
Sub-Asst. Commr.

Transcription Notes:
right half not finished Gustavus Horton was Mayor of Mobile in 1868 (per Wikipedia)