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reasonably intelligent idea of the advantages which they hereafter to enjoy.
   In cases where registration had not yet taken place, I found some who understood the matter, it having been explained to them; and those who had very little idea of its purpose. In all instances of the latter character, I took especial pains to explain the object of registration and suffrage, and believe I succeed in making it understood. 
   I can not report the nature and degree of information possessed by the freedmen in each particular case, as the greater portion of the visits were made before the Circular above mentioned was issued; and all of them before its contents came to my knowledge. I was absent on this duty when it reached Greenville. 
   On the 21st inst., while still absent on this duty, I was taken ill with Billious Fever, the consequence of the exposure to which I had been subjected in carrying out the provisions of the order above mentioned, and I was unable to leave my bed, to which I was confined by very severe sickness, until after the date of this report. I have now to employ the assistance of another to indite from my dictations. 
   For the reasons above given, the information in my report is not as particular as was contemplated in the cir-