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Office Asst Supdt RF & AL
Sub Dist of Amherst Co Va
Lynchburg Va June 1st 1866

DeKnight W.F.
Lt. VRC & Asst Supdt

Reports the feeling existing between whites & freedmen as not harmonious - that they have contracted by the year but feeling of distrust exists with both classes - and a hostility on part of the middle & lower classes of whites, gives statement of case now before the civil courts 

Also of negro who came in wounded - by white citizens because he refused to play the banjo

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Bureau of R F & A L
Office Supdt 7th Dist Va
Lynchburg Va June 1st 1866
Respectfully forwarded to Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
R S. Lacey
Capt 
AQM & Supdt

[[left margin]] A-49-252- [[/left margin]]

Respectfully
Your Obt. Servt
Wm F. De Knight
1st Lt V.R.C. Asst Supdt

[[stamp]] STATE OF VIRGINIA BUREAU OF R.F. & A.L.
RECD. HD. QRS. ASST. COMMISSIONER JUN 1 1866 [[/stamp]]

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