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HEADQUARTERS
[[strikethrough]] DEPARTMENT [[/strikethrough]] District of BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN AND ABANDONED LANDS, MISSISSIPPI
OFFICE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, 
FOR THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
Vicksburg, Miss.,  Sept. 11th, 1866

Major Genl O.O. Howard.,
Commissioner Bureau R.F. and A.L.
Washington, D.C.

General, 

I have the honor to forward my monthly Report of the Bureau and its operations in the State of Mississippi for August 1866. - 

District of Brookhaven - 

The officer in charge reports such fear existing that the Freedpeople do not report many of the outrages which take place; - this fear arises from the low estimation in which such as do report are held by their employers and others, who do not scruple to use the most grossly violent and illegal measures to