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persisted in this ordering, though invariably failing to sustain said clerk in so doing when the Adjutant resented the willful interferance.  In all this Genl Gregory exhibited a disposition to use underhanded means to spite a subordinate officer, as Genl Gregory had himself assigned the Adjunt Genl to the charge of the Complaint division, and well knew that said Adjt Genl was extremely touchy upon the subject of interference.

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Charge Fifth, Criminal disregard of the true interests of the Freedmen. 

Specification first, in this that Genl Gregory neglected to use any effort to prevent the colored claimants to whom their discharges were at last returned from going to fraudulent parties and being swindled, and when on one