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Office Assist Dept
Bureau refugees &c
Sub Dist Culpeper
Aug 15th 1865

Capt Frank Crandon
Dear Captain
I want to see you very much. I answered your telegram which I did not receive until this morning. And in it I intimated my desire to see you but fearing you might not come up I thought I would write you a note. I understand confidentially that there is a report going in from the military headquarters at this place which declare the freedman bureau within this military sub district "A failure". What it has failed to do in the county I have the honor of superintending. I am at a loss to