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Bureau R.F. & A.L.
Office Asst Supt
Amelia C.H Va May 1st 1866

Stuart Barnes
Capt & A.Q.M. Supt 2d dist

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

Sir
In compliance with Circular No 6 Hd Qrs Asst Com Richmond Va Jan 29/66, I have the honor to make the following report that the feeling towards the freedmen is unchanged Those who wish them well, speak well of them. And those who do not are continually finding fault with them. There is without a doubt a deep-seated hatred in the breasts of many toward the cold man, but it is not the respectable and I hope not the ruleing class. They seem to be renewing their hatred because there are schools established for the learning of these poor people. They seem to be affraid they will get to be as good as they are. And some of the respectable people are opposing the schools as though they were an invasion of their rights. They seem to look on schools as a kind of insurrectionary move.

The U.S. Presbyterian Gen-Assembly has a missionary (the Rev Thos [[G?]]. Murphy late chaplain 1st Del vols.) here. A few days ago I gave him a letter to Mr C. Coleman at Mannboro in this County. He went there for the purpose of trying to organize a Cold school and stoped with Mr Coleman for dinner and had his horse fed. After he left the neighbors came in to catacise Mr Coleman for giving the preacher dinner and feeding his horse. He (Coleman) said to them you say you want these people educated. Yess they said but we want to do it ourselves. Well he (Coleman) says "Why dont you? The Capt