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"I have not heard from the detail you wrote to Genl Curtis for therefore my hands are tied"
Having previously asked Genl Curtis to send me to Fincastle with an officer under instructions to furnish a detail as the request of Lt Tubbs, and duly notified him to that effect, I have now instructed Lt Tubbs to at once apply for the detail, and report result.

I respectfully suggest the transfer of this county to the Seventh District, as it may be easily controlled from Lynchburg.

Of Rockbridge County the Assist Supt Lt. Tubbs says "There are a few people here that are well-disposed, and willing to assist the freedmen in making an honorable living; but the majority of them are selfish, stubborn, mean, and try to take every advantage of the freedmen that they can. Occasionally one is bold enough to say plainly, "that as soon as the — Yankees leave they will shoot them like dogs" The union sentiment is so small that it would require something more thorough than a Pennsylvania search warrant to find it &c"

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