Viewing page 14 of 260

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

War Department,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, Oct 10th 1865.

Brig Genl Davis Tillson
Acting Asst. Commissioner
Augusta Ga

General
I have the honor to communicate for your information a copy of a communication from this Bureau to Brig Genl J W Sprague with reference to the employment of Officials of the State Government as Agents of the Bureau in the State of Ark.

As you are on the ground the General leaves the whole question of associating civilians with Military Officers in administrating affairs of the Bureau to your discretion, but suggests the advisability of testing the experiment in some sections of the State, as eventually the Bureau will have to give place to the authority of the State, and it would be well to accustom the citizens to take an interest in the future of the Freedmen by associating some of them with Military Officers in