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Sub Dist. "B."

Of Augusta County Mr Tukey assist Supt. says

"The condition of affairs of the Bureau is not as good as I could wish, and yet perhaps as good as could be expected when we consider the prejudice of the Citizens against the freedmen, and the lack of facilities for executing the regulations of the Bureau — meaning want of Cavalry to send for parties at a distance — I find, almost invariably, that the disposition to abuse the freedmen comes from the lower and more ignorant class of people — those who were non-slave holders before the War. Our Schools have already developed the fact that the intelligence of these freedmen is much higher than that of their fellows in Eastern Virginia when schools were opened there in 1861 — and I attribute this to a higher intelligence of the Whites and a more lenient policy towards their slaves"

In Highland County Mr Tukey says there are probably not more than one hundred freedmen and that he is promised a detail with which he will attempt the census. Only one case of destitution reported to him and that was provided for by the Civil authorities.

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