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He is unhappily constituted for the discharge of duties beset with so many perplexities as embarass Officials in this Bureau  I endeavored to treat him with great kindness and regret that he did not conclude with me that it was better for the Bureau, and for him, and especially for the Freedmen that he be relieved, and go cheerfully to his Regiment without murmurs or complain  The Press at Memphis is very unfriendly to the Freedmen's Bureau, but cordial in their expressions of regard for Col Dudley. I was fortunate in receiving the special notice of Editors, who in many columns most shamefully represented my action and words. I was held up as an infamous Radical - the advocate of negro equality, and the extermination of rebels &c. Words I never uttered were reported as having