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In Jefferson county, Lt Smith says that the freedmen are doing pretty well and are generally at work for usual wages but that the whites are unwilling to concede any rights or privileges other than those enjoyed (?) before the war, and if the troops should be removed they would suffer petty persecutions and much ill treatment, particularly at Harpers Ferry and at Charleston.

From this place just named the soldiers were withdrawn shortly after I had procured them to be stationed there, and just as I had arranged for the establishment of a school, to which the whites were bitterly opposed, and which I think could hardly be maintained without the pressure of a supporting force.

I have had great difficulty in obtaining a proper officer for this Sub. District, abut believe that now to have [?] overcome, and anticipate an effective superintendence of Bureau affairs in Sub Dist "E". 

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(?) actually appears in the letter (it's not a missing word!)