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Bureau of R.F. &. A.L.
Office of Asst Supt
Culpeper CH Va
February 28th 1866

Capt T.F.P. Crandon
A.Q.M & Supt 4th Dist Va

Capt
In compliance with Circular No 6 Dated Hd Qrs Asst Commissioner Va Richmond Va Jan 29th 1866, I have the honor to make the following statements. The workings of the Bureau are in a very fair condition. The freedmen are almost without an exception going to work most of them by the year. The worst feature I have to contend with is that freedmen are often interfered with by unknown parties who coax them away from their employers to break their contracts by the promise of better wages &c. This is often on account of personal feuds and often to embarass the workings of the bureau. All the labor of the freedmen is used and more are coming from Alexandria brought by farmers that want labor. This village was overrun with freedmen when I took charge here but I have succeeded in getting the most of them out into the country on farms.

Very few of the citizens come to me to have their contracts made but make them among themselves "rather" as they say "than to have anything to do with a Yankee" but if a freedman breaks his contract they are sure to come to me for redress.