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Monty, Ala.
May 11 - 66

Col M. D. Wickersham
Chief Q.M. Mobile Ala.

Please advise me what corn or oats supplies you have.

( ) Wager Swayne
Bvt Maj Gen'l

Mont'y Ala
May 11" 66.

Maj Genl O. O. Howard
Freedmens Bureau
Washington D.C.

Letters fourth (4") May received.  Corn to be useful shipped immediately.  Might use Quartermasters surplus at Nashville, Mobile, and New Orleans.

( ) Wager Swayne
Bvt Maj Genl

Montgomery Ala.
May 11 - 66

Maj Genl O. O. Howard
Freedmens Bureau
Washington D.C.

Gov Patton would like to buy with "State Bonds" the surplus corn

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I dispatched about this morning - also any more at Memphis.

( ) Wager Swayne
Bvt Maj Gen'l

Mont'y Ala.
May 15" 66

Maj C. W. Pierce
Supt B. R & A L.
Demopolis Ala.

You will direct Mr. Kurtz to suspend operations for the present

( ) O. D. Kinsman
A.A.G.

Office Asst Comir
Bureau R F & A L.
Monty. May 16" 66

Col Jno. B. Callis
Huntsville Ala.

There is no force in this Bureau to levy taxes or enforce collection.

( ) Wager Swayne
Bvt Maj Gen'l

Montgomery Ala.
May 21" 66

Dr J. C. Keft