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War Department,
BUREAU REFUGEES, FREEDMEN, AND ABANDONED LANDS,
OFFICE CHIEF DISBURSING OFFICER,
Washington, D.C., Jany 8th 1868

Bvt. Brig. Gen. O Brown
Asst Commissioner
State of Virginia 

General,
In conformity with Special Order No. 1, dated Hd Quarters Asst Comr. State of Virginia Jany 3rd 1868. I have the honor to report that I proceeded to Lynchburg Va. and made due examination and inquiry in regard to the charges against Capt Lacy and Lieut Stevenson. I made personal inquiry, and examined some twenty Colored persons, many of them appearing well informed, and it was universally acknowledged that their places could not be filled with men, having the interests and advancements of the Colored Men more at heart than Capt Lacy & Lieut Stevenson.

Lieut Stevenson is rather impetuous and irritable and sometimes uses strong language to the Colored people which they resent; and it is reported that Capt Lacy, (instead of Lieut Stevenson) misuses

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