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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Office Sup't District of the Nottoway,
Petersburg, Va., July 9 1865.

P.S. Evans
A A A Genl

Sir 

I have spent two days at City Point & Point of Rocks and such temporary alleviation of the suffering at the former place given as was in my power.  Arrangements are made for operation soon as officers are detailed to assist me, until then but little progress can be made with the work in the Dist.

Prompt action is needed in this Dist., particularly this vicinity.  In the suffering at City Point, at almost every Court House in each County, when the unemployed sick & destitute