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Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen 
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala.  Sept 27th 1865

Special Order 
No 17}

Q.M. Dept will furnish transportation to Chaplain D.T. Culley Asst Supt Freedmens Bureau to Selma, Ala.
By order of 
Brig Gen W. Swayne
Maj & A.A.A.G.


Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen 
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala.  Sept 29th 1865

Special Order 
No 18}

Bvt Lt Col Edward Wright, Chief Receiving & Disbursing Officer will proceed to Mobile for the purpose of transacting business connected with this office.  Upon completion of the same he will return to these Head-Quarters.
II  Capt T.L. Kerr Chief Q.M. will proceed to Mobile for the purpose of transacting business connected with this office.  Upon completion of the same he will return to these Head-Quarters.
III  Lt J.F. McGogy A.A.Q.M. will proceed to Mobile for the purpose of transacting business connected with this office.  Upon completion of the same he will return to these Head-Quarters.
By order of 
Brig Gen W. Swayne

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Maj & A.A.A.G.


Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen 
and Abandoned Lands
Montgomery, Ala.  Sept 7th 1865

Circular 
No 1}

The condition of Refugees and Freedmen in this State, in some particulars, requires the attention of all persons concerned in the general welfare.  
Among Freedmen an impression extensively prevails, that about the close of this year, landed property to a very large extent, will be divided out to them.  Such expectations are fruitful of idleness, disappointment and mischief, and of no good whatever.  Every effort should be made to show to Freedmen the absurdity of supposing that a Government which is simply vindicating their natural rights as one class of its citizens, will for their benefit invade the agreed rights and property of another class.  
There is besides, a wide spread and natural desire on the part of Freedmen to test their new liberty by a change of employers.  In individual cases, and when no loss of time is involved, such a change is generally for the good of both parties.  But where it is undertaken by a whole people, whose education points all of them to one customary time, and that in mid-winter, it must involve very many in confusion and distress.
Hence it is urged upon all who are now affording to Freedmen good homes and fair compensation, to contract with them to continue the relation, and it is conjoined upon all Freedmen who have such homes to enter into contracts, and beware of casting themselves adrift in such a whirlpool as is their present social life.