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act is looked upon as a man of dignity and fills the pulpit to the entire satisfaction of his hearers at that place. 
I found Capt. Peck Sub-Commr. absent from Hazlehurst - he being off on business, hence made no inspection. Of his recent trouble you are fully advised. The supreme display of the civil power over the military, by an armed band of fifty renegades, going at the dead hour of the night to take the body of one man, and incarcerating him in the County jail, for rebuking an insult in his own office, thereby violating all accepted and acknowledged principles of law intervening between the civil and the Military powers. 
The facts you have and I hope due wright may be given the subject by yourself, based on a proper Statement of the case.
I found the office of Lt. Col. R.S. Donaldson at Jackson in good condition. Great economy is used by him in the administration of affairs, and the interests of the Bureau Closely guarded. In Lt. Col. Donaldson you have a faithful, honest, and zealous Commissioner fully involved with such ideas of right between man and man, and one who will faithfully adhere to