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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, Headquarters 5th District of Virginia, Alexandria, Va.,September 28th 1865. Col. O. Brown, Asst. Com, State of Va., Colonel:- I send you the accompanying papers, venturing the suggestion that it would be well to represent to Gen'l Terry the absolute necessity of a vigorous exertion of his authority upon the officers in command of our troops at Warrenton, and in Fauquier Co. Hardly a day passes but similar complaints from the Freedmen of Fauquier Co., showing that our officers there act upon the assumption that a black man has no rights which white men are bound to respect. A detailed man of mine, who was there a short time, states that the Freedmen