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Bureau of Refugee Freedmen &c
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com'r, State of Virginia

Richmond, Va. Nov'r 10th 1865
Maj. Genl. O.O. Howard
Commissioner &c.
General,
x x x
I also request instructions in regard to the Taylor Farm. This farm has been made a sort of Freedmens' Home. A church and school house have been built on it and more than 100 houses each with a garden of three acres. There are now nearly one thousand (1000) Freedmen on it of whom four hundred (400) are the families of colored soldiers. Appreciating the great suffering which they must experience if turned out of these homes in mid-winter; knowing the unwillingness and want of ability of the counties to which they belong to provide for them, and fearing the danger from pestilence

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