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Office Asst Supt F. B and A. L
Bowling Green Caroline Co Va Feb 27/66

T Frank P Crandon.
Capt and AAM and Supt 4th Dist Va

Captain
In accordance with Circular No 6 C.S. Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner Va Richmond Va. I beg leave to report. That at present nearly all the Freedmen are at work in this county, Some of the Farmers are without the necessary labor to cultivate their plantations, and I am sorry to say are rather inclined to seduce the Freedmen from their contracts, otherwise affairs in the Bureau in this County are getting along very well.
As to the "State of feeling existing between the Whites and Freedmen" I would state that it is a very distant, cold sort of feeling. a feeling of distrust on both sides, The Whites, (with very few exceptions) are inclined to show them little, or no favor, and only respect their rights, when they cannot help themselves,
In some instances I find the Freedmen claim that their contracts were not read to them, or that there was more written in the contract than was read to them, and they offer that as an excuse to break them.
I am Captain
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt servt
John O'Dwyer Capt VRC
Asst Supt F B and A L
Caroline Ct Va