Nashville, June 15th, 1863

Col. Wm [Truesdail] Chief Army Police,

Your favor of the 13th inst. was handed me yesterday by Capt. Fyffe. It is all right and satisfactory, in regard to the [illegible] case. I only wrote you to let you know the parties I had authorized to bring out their cotton. I shall expect you, and thank you to cooperate with me--we are all in the same glorious cause of the country against the Rebellion. Please see that no one brings out cotton who does not intend to ship it to this place to turn over to the Government. I shall give no permits to any one who does not intend to abandon the cotton to the Government. The Treasury Department intends to control the cotton trade, and directs all its agents to encourage persons to turn it over provided they are loyal--if they are not, our instructions are to seize it.

I return my thanks to Col. Ashburn for putting me on the track of the nine casks of Bacon, belonging to an Alabama Rebel. I have the Bacon hard and fast. It is a valuable [illegible] and I have libeled it in the Federal Court, and will be able to turn it over to the Army after the court in next month,

Respectfully, W. G. Brownlow Special Agent