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Fincastle Botetourt Co. Va.
April 30th 1866

Gen O. Brown
Asst Comm. Bureau of R.F. &c
Richmond Va

Sir:
I have the honor to report that I have just arrived here consequently have not had time to thoroughly ascertain the state of feeling existing between the whites and Freedmen. But from information derived from a reliable source, I am constrained to believe that there is a class of the whites very bitter who are determined to cheat and defraud him, and to deprive him of every possible right. There are however a few unconditional Union men here, who are friends both to the Freedmen and Bureau, and who are determined if possible to give them justice

I am Very Respectfully
Your Obet Srv'et
B.F. Shaum
2d. Lt and Bvt Capt. V.R.C. and Asst. Supt. B.R.F. &c

Thro
Capt R S Lacey
A.Q.M and Supt. 7th Dist B.R.F &c

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