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Office Supt 4th Distva
Gordonsville, Va. 6th Jany., 1866

Col OBrown
Asst Comr Va
Richmond, Va
Col.
I accordance with private instructions received from yo, I forward herewith a report of the outrage committed by the citizens on Negroes in this District, so far as the facts have come to my knowledge. The limited time given for making this report prohibits the getting of information from remote parts of the District, and the fact that nearly every officer in the District is a late incumbent--The original officers having been relieved or mustered out--would render it impossible to report every case. In this report I only allude to cases of the most cruel and vindictive character. The almost innumerable cases of petty tyranny and bad treatment, which have been brought before the officers of the District and adjusted by them