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WAR DEPARTMENT,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, D.C., Feb. 11, 1868

Maj. Gen. J.J. Reynolds
Asst Commr. Texas

General
The Commissioner directs me to acknowledge receipt of communication of A.H. Mayer through you on the subject of difficulties growing out of Gen. Hancock's orders. A former letter on the same subject was referred to Gen. Hancock. You will please to communicate with him freely and endeavor to secure his instructions as to the best mode of preventing trouble and disturbance.

Very Respectfully
E. Whittlesey
A.A.A.G