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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
HEAD QUARTERS ASST. COMMISSIONER, STATE OF VIRGINIA,
Richmond, Va, August 9th, 1865.

Cap. T. F. P Crandon A.Q.M.
Supt R.F, A.L. 4th Dist.

Captain
Information has reached this office that the Freedmen, working on the Va Central R. Road stopped work on August 1st, on account of not having been paid. They could not ascertain what they were to be paid; and when settled with they were paid a mere pittance. These men worked at Noell's Turnout. Benj. F. Johns, a section master notified the people that if they employed the colored men, thus discharged, to cut wood, the wood would not be used on The Road.

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