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No leading colored citizens were sent for; a few freedmen might have been talked to on the street, but this class was not fairly represented. The committee did not appear to have described that it is to day absolutely without justice, except the driblets of it that the Bureau is allowed to dispense; or that there is no guarantee of the greatest blessing of the freedmen, schools, except in the Bureau. 

I cannot see that my absence should have prevented the fullest access to the freedpeople.

Nothing very unfavorable to me since things highly commendatory of the Bureau were elicited by the investigation in Compton.

I an hours interview I afterwards had met Gens Steadman and Fullerton in Norfolk, Gen. Miles being also present, my testimony was not called for; Gen Miles was asked but little. Gen Steadman occupied the time in a statement of his policy.

I am General
With Great Respect
Your obt. Sevt
Saml C. Armstrong
Supt of Tenn.

Transcription Notes:
Armstrong = see page 118.