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274
Vol 2. 1868

Sub Dist of Talladega
Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Office Sub Asst Commr
Talladega Ala July 29th 1868

Maj. Geo. Shorkley
A.A.A. General
Montgomery Ala

Major

In compliance with Circular No. 11, C.S. I have the honor to report the affairs of the Bureau and Freedmen in this Sub District, as follows.

There is work for all of the Freedmen that will work Very few of them unemployed; the most of them working crops on shares, with a fair prospect for good crops.

The complaints this month by the Freedmen have been less then the month of June, but of a similar character.

In one section of this District, Plantersville Talladega County, there is a disposition among some of the white citizens to abuse the Freedmen by waylaying them as they are going