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and our informant fears that desire for protection will induce the coloured people to go to Richmond, or other towns already too crowded in order to secure better care.

 Respectfully and truly thy friend,
   James E Rhoades
Colonel O.Brown
Asst. Commissioner Bureau Refugees Freedmen et cetera 
 for the State of Virginia.