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Head-Quarters Department of the [[strikethrough]] Tennessee [[/strikethrough]] Cumberland
Office of Assistant Adjutant General.
Louisville, Ky., March 29" 1867.

Bvt. Maj. Gen. Wm P. Carlin
Asst. Commr. Bureau R. F. and A. L.
Nashville Tennessee

General:

Referring to your request of the 27" inst. I have the honor to inform you that the Commanding Officer of the District of Nashville has been directed to send a detachment to Columbia as guard to the Officers of the Bureau stationed there, and at Pulaski. The Major General Commanding the Department directs me to say that instances have come to his knowledge, where agents of the Bureau have acted in a very summary, impolitic and unjust manner; sometimes entrusting the duties of their office to clerks who were irresponsible, and who have sent insulting and threatening letters to ladies and other respectable people; who hear complaints and make decisions from ex parte statements, and in various ways show a want of judgement which should characterize the official conduct of persons charged with a delicate and responsible trust.