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be ordered to Kaufman Kaufman Co. Tex. I also state that I have never been relieved from the command of said Co. and am responsible for all the property pertaining thereto. I further report that since my arrival I have been busily engaged in ascertaining the condition of affairs in Kaufman County, and am convinced from what I have seen and heard that a very large majority of the white citizens are much more hostile to the Gov't than are the citizens of any section in which I have had opportunity to become acquainted. Since the surrender murders and assaults have been frequent and numerous, and as far as I can ascertain in no case have the guilty parties been punished, and in but very few instances any official notice been taken of the murder of Freedmen, and in the few cases where the guilty parties have been brought before a court the trial has been a mere farce and mockery of justice. From what I learn there are now many men living in this county who I believe would before a military commission be found guilty of murdering Freedmen, I believe that it will be impossible to find white men enough in the county who can take the required oath to form a jury, and even if they do succeed in so doing I pity the freedman who seeks justice in the Courts, I find that the majority of the freedmen have not been paid for last years labor, in some cases the employers have driven them from their work and then refused to pay them on the ground that they had not worked the full time agreed upon, in other cases not even an attempt at an excuse is made and the