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from cordial; and many inquires were made to us to the length of time the colored troops would probably remain.  This same feeling has manifested itself, according to the County Commanders, throughout the entire sub district.  In my judgement however, it will not be of long endurance; and in fact it is  beginning to dissipate even now.  A person, who on our arrival complained to the Provost Marshal, that his apples were stolen and who said "he'd be d-d if he'd have a nigger guard" to protect them, complemented an officer of the regiment today on the good behavior of the Colored troops, and Capt. Boston writes from Charlotte Co. and says: that "the conduct of my men has been so uniformly good and soldierlike, that many of the citizens have admitted that there is a complete change in their feelings towards them."
   A great part of the difficulties between the freedmen and their former owners, arise from the fact that the latter manifest a disposition now that their crops are gathered, to turn off their former slaves, without any compensation whatever.  Another fertile cause of disturbance is the violation of the contract made between