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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEADQUARTERS SUB ASST. COM'R, 10th SUB DIST., STATE OF VIRGINIA.
Alexandria, Va., Nov. 27th 1867.

Brt Brig. Gen. O. Brown
Richmond, Va

Genl.-
The people of Warrenton Fauquier Co. Va. and vicinity, openly, in public speeches and in the local paper advocate the discharge of all the colored people on the 1st day of January 1868 who voted the Republican ticket at the late election, and more particularly the members of the Union League. "Extra Billy" Smith on the 25th made a speech to that effect at the Court House. The hostility toward union men is strong, and the hatred for the Yankees is openly expressed. These people more rebellious than at any other time since the war, they have burned the barn of Mr. Hogue, the union delegate to the Convention. The Union men feel that their lives and property are not safe and some of them talk of leaving the county on that account, in fact the majority of the people of Fauquier Co. are opposed to anyone living with them black or white who will not cater to their prejudices and coincide with them in their political views and opposition to the Republican party and the Govt. of the U.S. their open denunciation of which is of daily occurrence, and they wish to make the colored people and all vote as they wish them, in fact cater to their prejudices or drive them from the county if possible

Fauquier Co is very large and the 4th Division as at

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