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Headquarters, Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA, 
Charleston, S.C. Dec 19th 1865.

Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington City

General:
I have the honor to herein submit a Brief made up from Reports received from the Acting Sub Assistant Commissioners and Agents of the Bureau in South Carolina during the month of November 1865.

It shows, as far as can be ascertained, the state of affairs as existing during that month in the several districts of the State.

Abbeville District
Here a planter worked nearly one hundred (100)hands near Cokesburg - ten (10) of them on the S.C. R.R. for six (6) months, (the planter receiving their wages) and the remainder on his plantation,raising a crop of Corn, Wheat, Rice, Cotton, etc. After the Crop was harvested the laborers were brought to Charleston, where being destitute they had to be rationed by