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Office Bureau. Refugees, &c, &c.
Jasper, Tennessee, March 7, 1866.

Gen Fisk: As I will have a chance of sending this by a safe private conveyance to your Hd Quarters, I will inform you that I have called Col F. W. Lister, commanding at Bridgeport, Alabama, twelve miles from here, for 80 or 100 troops to be at this place on Saturday next, with ten days rations or [[?]]. I did this for fear my letter of a few days ago might not reach you in time to grant me the aid sought, and which I am fully convinced is absolutely necessary for the successful administration of the affairs of the Bureau here. Mr Morris, the bearer of this, who is well recommended by Governor Morton, of Indiana, can tell you more than I have time now to write; but when I come to answer your Confidential Circular letter, which I aim to do in a few days, I will give a more intended view of the condition of things in the county. The reason I called upon Col Lister for so many troops, was to show the enemies of the Government that it still lives, has a will, and is determined to carry that will out: and so I wrote to him. My hope was and is, that such an array of power would have a great moral effect upon the minds of the rebels of the county, and their aides. If this conjecture prove to be correct, I shall hope to have but little need of help from the military here after: and then the troop may return to their post in a few days. But I