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Cruel Assaults upon Freedmen, by White Citizens.

I shall endeavor to have them tried before their civil courts, and promptly punished. I will report the Action of the Magistrate in these cases.

I must respectfully urge the necessity of the presence of some U.S. soldiers in this County, even two or three, stationed here for a time, will have a most salutary effect in repressing the lawless violence of the Whites, and impart a feeling of security to the Freedmen which does not exist now,

I am Sir,
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
Chas. H. Burd
1st Lt. &  Asst Supt for 
Surry Co. Va.

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