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asking for redress and protection and demanding full and impartial military investigation a copy will be forwarded you

I regret such civil outrages for they only embitter the colored man by arousing his prejudice against the whites in teaching that he cannot receive Justice from them notwithstanding the claim that they are his true friends.

Wages generally will rule good better in some respects than last summer season and I anticipate little trouble in all the freedmen taking care of themselves and families in the future and do not doubt that had not the past winter been one of great severity little suffering would have been experienced by them even with the dearth of wages. I visited Lexington in company with General Willcox during the month of January. Owing to the numerous reported outrages committed by the students of Washington Colledge he was desirous of a personal investigation and of effecting some means of preventing future recurrence of them. Consultations were held with the colledge and town officials and every

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