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Office Asst. Supdt. Sub Dist. Amherst Co.
7th District Va
Lynchburg, Va. May 31st 1866

Brvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown
General,
Pursuant to Circular No 6 current series from your Head Quarters, I have the honor to report the condition of Bureau affairs in my Sub District, as being purely transitional.
The state of feeling existing between the Whites and Freedmen, so far as I have had opportunity to remark, since May 2nd, the date on which I was placed in charge of the County, is not as uniformly harmonious as could be desired. Although the latter are very nearly all at work, either for themselves, or for the whites - the majority with their former owners mostly on yearly contracts, for a portion of the products of the lands under cultivation by them, still, a feeling of uneasiness, uncertainty and distrust mainly as to the future, seems to exist, on both sides; amounting