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Bureau Freedmen
Selma. Sept 16th 1865

C. Cadle Jr.
Bvt Col. & A.A.G.  

Colonel: I have the honor to report the following circumstances, showing the need of more, and more widely extended agencies in the Bureau.
Mr. Rowe, an assistant of this office stationed about Warrenton and vicinity in this county, states that he heard a man say in presence of five or six other men, that he assisted in drawing a sieve in Cedar Creek, and that they found six or eight dead bodies of negroes, caught in it. One of the men hearing the statement, was a magistrate.
I have written him in regard to it.
A soldier, who has been a safeguard on a widow's plantation , six or eight miles below here, and neighboring to 

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