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Office Asst Supt Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Isle of Wight County Va
Smithfield Febry 14 1866

Captain James A Bates
Actg Asst Adjt Genl
Captain,
In obedience to Circular No 6 from your Head Quarters dates Jany 29th I have the honor to make the following report of Bureau Affairs in this County

In the adjacent portion of the county there seems to be no cause for complaint among the Freedmen. Most of them have hired to whites for the coming year. But in some distant portions of the county there is considerable hard feeling against them  on the part of the citizens though I have heard of no cases of actual violence except one viz. the murder of Burrel Green.

This bitter feeling, I think is wearing away, though there is a great number of 

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-02-21 11:20:32 corrected spelling of "Burrell" to "Burrel"