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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned Lands Office Ass't Supt Westmorland & Richmond Cos Va. Warsaw Richmond County Virginia, January 1st 1867. Major James Johnson Supt 6th Dist. BRF & A.L. Va Fredericksburg Major: I do not conceive how I shall be able to carry out my orders, or do the justice to some 3 or 4 orders from General O.O. Howard the Commissioners Office which have to lay pidgeonholed in my office, just for the want of a horse. I have not yet completed taking the census; I have not been able to attend civil courts where freedmen were interested, and I have to neglect many important things connected with my office, here, just for the want of a horse. It is impossible for me to obey the orders from my superiors, and see that entire (over)