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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands,
Headquarters 5th District of Virginia,
Alexandria, Va., September 13th 1865.

Col. O. Brown
Asst. Com., Richmond, Va.,

Colonel:
In answer to your communication of 10th Sept., inst., asking if I had any evidence or suspicions of any insurrectionary movements on the part of Freedmen in this locality, I have the honor to state that, so far as I know, this class of persons are disposed to be civil and friendly towards the whites. In cases of difficulty arising between black and white, one would expect them, remembering their late situation as slaves, to display a great degree of obstinacy, but so far it seems to have been avoided.  I have given instructions to all persons acting under my orders to, whenever a number of late slaves could be assembled, lecture them at length, giving them