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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
HEADQUARTERS 11TH SUB-DISTRICT VIRGINIA,
Farmville, Va, Jany 23rd 1868

Brt Brig Gen O. Brown
Asst Comr B of R F & A L
Richmond Va
General
In compliance with instructions contained in your communication of the 13th inst and subsequently given me personally concerning certain armed organizations in Halifax County &c I have the honor to report the following as resulting from my personal investigation of the matter as tended to.

I am unable to produce any substantial evidence of the existence of any such organizations in the above County, or any other County in this District. I found that at News Ferry a charitable association had been organized, having for its principal object, the care of the sick and

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