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Office of Ast Supt B of 
R F and A L 
Tuskegee Ala Jan 13th 1866

Col C [[Gadle?]] Jr
Asst Adjt Genl B of R F and A L

I have the honor to transmit here with my weekly report. Everything is doing as well as I could expect the Freedmen have gone to work with a will that is Surprising to the planters, (if I am to believe reports which come from the country) and both planter and Freedmen Seem to be perfectly contented there are but vary few complaints being made at this Office and those few complaints are confined to the binding or apprenticeing of minor children who have parrents. I find by carefull inquery that there are a great many minor children in the conties of Russell and Chambers, apprenticed, who have parrents and those parrents are able to Support their children in Such cases and have returned the children to their Parrents I think there has been and is yet a vary great wrong