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Fortress Monroe June 26th 65 Col O. Brown Asst Commsr of Freedmen &c Sir Your favor of the 23 is received, exceept my thanks for the kind spirit manifest therein, you will please pardon me for intruding upon your time again, but I believe it my duty to inform you of abuses practiced upon a coloured people particularly where there is no chance for redress, in and about Fredericksburgh the first NY mounted Rifles are camped & doing duty. Col. Sumner in command he has controll of the contrabands in that district of country A coloured man had & as he says owned a very good Horse it was taken from him he made to work policeing about the stables a few days
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