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Winchester Va May 5th 1866
My Dear General
It seems to me that it will soon be necessary to modify the organization of this District or change its present anomalous relations to the Command of Genl Terry, to that of Genl Hancock and to the State of West Virginia. By the departure of Genl Ayers the command of a District embracing Rockingham, Shenandoah, Page Warren Frederick Clark Berkley Jefferson and Loundon Counties divided upon a [[?]], M.S & who is apparently desirous of fixing the precise relation in which Bureau officers stand to him and he to them. And he does not understand how, for instance, I can be in and exercise jurisdiction within the command of Genl Howard yet be under the direction of yourself and Genl Terry. 
This is my interpretation of his remark that he does not understand the Bureau arrangements and has written for instructions, and it occurs to him that the ordering transactions of the Bureau are irregular enough without the continuance of such a complication as this.