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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 File extract copied 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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