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Farmville.
Prince Edward Co., Va.,
Aug. 25th 1868.

Brig. Gen. O. Brown, 
Asst. Comr. B.R.F. & A.L.
Dist. of Virginia.

General
I beg very respectfully to call your attention to the condition of the Freedmen in the County of Appomattox and to suggest the necessity of having an Agent of the Bureau stationed at or near the Court House of the County.

The population of Appomattox is nearly equally divided between the two races, and while the colored people have a slight advantage in numbers, it is not sufficient to act as a check on those who are disposed to commit violence and outrage. The agent having control of this County now has his head-quarters in the City of Lynchburg, and the knowledge of the difficulty under which the Freedmen labor in procuring a redress of grievances has emboldened the oppressors and disheartened the oppressed, many of whom on account of distance to Lynchburg, choose rather to submit to maltreatment than to undertake to obtain justice where it alone may be found - in the Bureau. The season for dividing of crops is fast approaching, and unless some action is taken to guard the Freedmen's rights during that operation I share their fears that untold and incalculable injustice will fall to their lot.

I am General, Very Resp'y Your Obedt. Servt.,
Edgar Allan.