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and passed by, both for want of time and space, and because a similar experience has attended the administration of Bureau affairs in every sub-District of the State. If cases of personal outrages by Negroes towards white persons have occurred, I do not know them. In many instances I find the Freedmen doing wrong but I have not heard of a case of personal violence being committed by them.

While I would not consider the cases reported as an index of the general feeling in the District, I can not but regard the common sentiment as antagonistic to the recognition of the complete and absolute freedom of men who have been slaves.
I have the honor to be 
Col
Yours &c &c
(Sigd) T Frank P Crandon
Capt & A.Q.M. &
Supt 4th Dist. Va

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