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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS SUPERINTENDENT 2nd DISTRICT,
Petersburg, Va., July 5 1866.

STUART BARNES,
Capt., A.Q.M. and Sup't.

General,
I feel it my duty to recommend that Lt Chas. Bird V.R.C. Asst Supt City Pt be mustered out of the service or assigned to duty in some other Dist.  Although fully capable he is so addicted to the use of liquor, as to make his services but of little value, and so indescent is he under its influence, as to have several times caused me serious trouble.  He has several times