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Bureau Refugees Freedmen & A Lands
Hd Qrs Sixth District Va
Staunton Sept 1st 1865

Col. O. Brown, Assist Commr
Richmond Va

Colonel

I have the honor to report that I have made a tour through the greater portion of my District, which is yet unorganized owing to my inability to procure officers, and the lack of troops in the several counties.

I have stationed civilians as Assist. Superintendents at the principal points, Winchester, Staunton, and Lexington, and have thus been enabled to convey the impression throughout this region that the freedmen are being cared for, and that they may not be ill-treated with impunity.

The freedmen are generally at work but whether or not for their former masters cannot be determined in the absence of census returns.

The feelings of the former masters are now [[allowed?]] to the interests of the freedmen whose newly acquired rights they are not disposed to respect although they verbally acknowledge their freedom as "free persons of color".