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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
States of Kentucky, Tennessee [[strikethrough]] and Nor. Alabama. [[/strikethrough]]
Assistant Commissioner's Office,
Nashville Tenn Dec 22d 1865

General
In acknowledgement and reply to your inquiring of 19th inst. touching my action in the Orphan Asylum case at Memphis I have the honor to state that Mrs Caufield issued her petition under a misapprehension. She understood that I was about to withdraw all aid from her Institution. Genl Dudley confused her somewhat. I am furnishing her rations medicines and medical attendance. I have aided her in securing a good building for her occupancy until Jany 1867. I have also advised her to make a vigorous effort to get her own denomination to adopt the Institution as theirs and care for it henceforth. She is pleased with the idea, and I doubt not will succeed. The Protestant Episcopal Church have withdrawn from the American