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mutiny & digest their desires & reasons & report to you more fully at an early day. If they have not, it is doubtless because the Major, to them, as to me, advised against all this, setting aside the Bureau entirely as an unnecessary intruder into his command - 

He called a meeting the same day evidently to head off all other action - got only a handful together - agreed to their plans, assuring them he could manage the whole thing to suit them, provided they would back him up & turn against Churchill. Please notice the 1st resolve starts off with our plan, to pull wool over our eyes, in true Southern Style, but is so incumbered in what follows that the enforcement system attempted, over the South side of the James, is clearly the thing sought, and as you will see the Major approves the whole without a condition & sets himself at work to bring it about by assaults on every one he supposes will be in his way - 

He continues (as I reported to you) to disregard all orders of the Bureau about restoring property. - Sends and seizes, and gives up whatever property is called for, or he takes a notion to, whether on our papers or not. So with Q. Masters property

I have reported to Gen. Miles & appealed to him for protection but have rec'd no decision yet. Perhaps I am not well ported. I had supposed the design was that the military & Bureau were to work in harmony to secure certain ends. If I am mistaken please port me up. 

I am Gen, very Restly 
your obt sevt 
C.B. Wilder Capt. & A.Q.M. - 

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