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Bureau of Refugees, freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Office Sup't 2nd District, Petersburg, Va., Oct 3rd 1865. Rev R. M. Manly Dear Sir We are meeting with difficulties heer in reference to Loomis; and thinking perhaps Capt Barnes may bring up the subject. I will state in reference thereto which you will please communicate. The 1st Af. Church was used by our [[So'n?]]. When wee came here we asked for is if the Trustees. They wanted we should go to a church prayer meeting & bring it before the church. They attempted to do so, but the Deacons & others told them "the church had nothing to do with it." "It had been voted into the hands of the Trustees to dispose of &c." Again Sunday morning they spoke of it - with a still stronger declaration to act in the