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Officer Asst Supt Bureau R. F & A.L.
Halifax Court House Va
April 3rd 1866

Capt Stuart Barnes
A.Q.M. Supt 2nd District
[[Stamp]]THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Captain

I have the honor to report affairs in this County as in a satisfatory condition. The Freedmen, are, as a general thing, those that are able to [?] working well, and not only the Freedmen, but the White population also. I have had occasion to visit several portions of the County and have not met a single idle person

I hear no disloyal sentiments expressed among the people, all seem to accept the position and appear to be striving to retrieve their fallen fortunes, I have talked with a great many who were violent secessionists, but who now express