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Office of Assistant Superintendent Negro Affairs.
Norfolk Va June 6th 1865.

Captain O. Brown}
A.Q.M. and Asst Com.}
State of Virginia,}

Captain:
I have the honor to report that Mr DeWitt, overseer of the Whitehead Farm No. 2, at Bernard's Mills, Nansemond County brought me information today, that an officer of the United States Army — a cavalry officer — grade unknown, supposed to be of the 3rd Regt. New York Vol Cavalry at about 8 o'clock P.M. yesterday, 5th inst, came upon the farm and in company with one Charles Cady — a civilian — visited the huts of the negros, and told them that he intended to take them all to a farm above Suffolk and put them to work; and that if they would not work he would compel them, that he would lock them up at night in a stockade and if they should attempt "to run away he would shoot them right down" He also ordered Mr DeWitt to stop the rations of several