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to call your attention to the following extract from the report of Bvt. Brig. General F.D. Sewall, Act. Inspector General dated Washington D.C. February 20th 1867, and to request information as to the date on which the Chief Med. Officer last inspected the hospitals therein named. viz:

"No general medical inspection of the hospitals at Hampton and Yorktown has been made for a year, nor has the Surgeon in Chief of the State, visited this District, as General Armstrong informs me, while it has been in his charge. It is one of the most important localities over which the Bureau exercises its jurisdiction, as regards the number and condition of the colored people. The medical officers on duty there, as far as I am able to judge, appear to be capable and efficient."

I am Sir
Yours Respectfully
(Sgd.) O. Brown
Bvt. Brig Genl. Vols
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl


121.
February 25th 1867.

Manly Chaplain R.M.
Supt. of Schools
/108. 

Sir,
I am directed by the Asst. Comr to call your attention to the following extract from the report of Bvt: Brig: General F.D. Sewall, Act. Inspector Genl., dated Washington D.C. Feby. 20th 1867, and to request that you report relative to the condition of the Schools at Hampton. viz:

"The schools at Norfolk and Yorktown are in a flourishing condition, but those at Hampton do not compare favorably with those I have visited in other states. 

There did not seem to be such a degree of interest manifested as is desirable - The evening school has in attendance only as I was informed, of about sixty pupils, out of the exceedingly large population in and around Hampton."

I am Sir
Yours Respectfully
(Sgd) O. Brown
A.A.A. Genl.

official 
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl

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122.
February 25th 1867.
Asst. Commissioner of North Carolina
(Through Bureau Hd Quars.)
/271

Sir,
I would respectfully request that inquiries be made for Thaddious Diggs of Co. "F". 1st U.S.C.T. mustered out with his company September 29th 1865, at Roanoke Island N.C.- I have a valuable package in my care for him. 

I am Sir
Yours Respectfully
(Sgd.) O. Brown
Bvt. Brig Genl. Vols
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl



123.
February 25th 1867.
Morse Bvt. Maj: W.R.
Supt.
43./59.

Major,
It is reported at these Head Quarter that H. T. Swart of Fauquier County, near Middleburg, Va. drove from his farm, on or about the 11th inst., a freedman named Henry W. Queen, with whom and his (Queens) wife he had jointly contracted for the present year, because Queen refused to do unusual and unnecessary work on the Sabbath, and that the man is afraid to return and wants to get his wife away. 

It is also reported that Swart killed a colored man last year, who was in his employ, and that no notice had been taken of the crime. 

It is further stated that Swart badly beat a colored boy, with whom he contracted at the same time as with Queen and afterwards drove him away.

Please have these cases investigated and report.
 
I am Major
Very Respectfully 
Your Obt. Servant
(Sgd.) O. Brown
Bvt. Brig: Genl: Vols
A.A.A. Genl.

Official
Garrick Mallery
A.A.A. Genl.

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-12-19 08:42:29 removed [[margin]] because it breaks up names. The instructions used to say to just transcribe as written in these registers, but for some reason that was taken out in the last revision. [[margin]] should really only be used when the writer continues his letter perpendicularly along the edges of the paper.