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In Shenandoah County, at Woodstock I have a new officer, Lt Goble who relieved Lt D. A. Smith in chage of the Sub District and whom short experience does not enable him to make a definite report_

From Lt Smith,- a good officer, taken from me to be made A.A.A.G. of this Military District,- I learn that the freedmen are doing very well. all at work for good wages - and that there is, generally, no disposition among the citizens to treat them unfairly, as they view fairness. The whites are an intensely disloyal people, in real sentiment, and were the protection of this Bureau to be withdrawn, the freedmen would be treated pretty much as they used to be_ The census of the County is nearly completed, and, as there are troops at Woodstock, it will doubtless be ready for copying as soon as I receive the printed blanks. A board of Agents is organized, but no report of cases tried as yet been received

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