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Office Assistant Commissioner
Bureau of Refugee Freedmen and A.L.
Montgomery Ala. Jany. 24th 1866

Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c
Washington D.C.

[[stamp]] The National Archives of the United States [[/stamp]]

General
I have the honor to acknowledge receipt of an application for the restoration of the Mobile Medical College, with accompanying enclosures, and to return the same herewith.

The city of Mobile was acquired by the force of the United States by a series of approaches, met with determined hostility, and at a cost of much blood and treasure. The whole of it was rightfully at the mercy of the captor, and possession was assumed and is still held, of so much of it as was deemed necessary or useful to the United States.

It was immediately developed [[?]] that a large portion of the people of Mobile were by reason of their color objects of the active and unusual enmity of the remainder, so great indeed that educational facilities such as the United States has always supported as necessary to its people would be neither afforded nor permitted them except through fear of military vindication,

Accordingly, in pursuance of an order of the War