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War Department, 
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 
Washington, December 14th 1868. 

Bt. Col. Edwin Beecher
Assistant=Commissioner, 
Montgomery Ala, 

Col. 
By direction of the Secretary of War. And in accordance with your request of .... the appointment of Mr. John C. Keffer As a Clerk in the State of Alabama made August 1" 1867, from this Office, is hereby revoked to date Decr. 31st 1868. 

By order of Maj.-Gen. O.O. Howard, Commissioner. 
E. Whittlesey
Act. Asst. Adj.=General