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Office Supt. Refugees &c. 9th Dist, 
Fort Monroe, Va, Dec. 30th, 1865.

Col. O. Brown
Asst. Comr, Freedmen's Bureau, State of Va, 
Richmond, Va, 

Colonel:
In reply to your communication of the 27th inst. I have the honor to append the following statement of outrages and assaults, committed by Whites upon black, and blacks upon Whites &c. Since assuming the charge of this Dist, I have experienced much difficulty in communicating with the Sub-Districts, owing to inefficient Assts, in part, and much of the time with none at all, and therefore many cases have passed unnoticed and without investigation — I am unable to make a statement of what occurred previous to the 1st of Sept. with one exception, to wit.:

On the 4th of July, the colored people assembled in what is called Sinclair's field, for the purpose of celebrating the day. Every thing passed off harmoniously until their return to town, when an unprovoked and brutal assault was made upon the procession by white men: their banners where torn from their hands: the children were knocked rudely about, and but for the interference of the Guard and a Squadron of Cavalry, would have

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