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BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN & ABANDONED LANDS, States of Kentucky, Tennessee and Nor. Alabama. Assistant Commissioner's Office, Nashville Tenn Oct 7th 1865 General I have the honor to inquire whether or not it was intended by Circular No 16. to detach Nor'n Alabama from this District. I regard it important that Nor'n Ala should remain in this District until the Camp at Decatur and Huntsville are entirely broken up - and the farming accounts all settled - all of Alabama north of the Tennessee River, and the ties of Counties immediately South of the River can be much better supervised from this point than from Montgomery - I have some very excellent gentlemen appointed as agents in that section - and have established a very good understanding with the citizens