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Officer of Asst. Supt. R.F. & A.L.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va.
May 25, 1866.

Bvt. Maj. T.F.P. Crandon.
A.Q.M. & Supt R.F. & A.L.

Major:

I have the honor to forward through your office to the Hd Qrs Asst Com'r. the following report showing the condition of Bureau affairs &c. in this Sub-Dist.

The feeling that exists between the whites and the Freedmen is very unfriendly. I cannot see that it is growing any better. The Freedmen are kept down by being frightened with threats of violence, if they go to their former master and ask for some corn to pay them for their service last year they are told to leave and that if they come on the plantation again he will shoot them, in many instances the gun is produced and a cap snapped at them, they are threatened the same if they report their former master to me; and at least one-half of the former slave owners that have been reported me have refused to appear in my office after being notified, and a great many have refused to pay their former slaves according to the decision of the Freedman's

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