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wounded in the fleshy part, below and behind the hip, by a party of white men, because he had refused, when requested by one of them, who pretended to be drunk, to play the Banjo; he not knowing how. This matter I have had to turn over to the civil authorities of the County. I have the honor to be General Very Respectfully Your Obt. Servt Wm. F. De Knight 1st Lt. V.R.C. & Asst Supdt 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 RF & AL Office Supdt 7th Dist Va Lynchburg Va June 1st 1866 Respectfully forwarded to Bvt Brig Genl O Brown R.S. Lacey Capt & AQM & Supdt H49-25V- y 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]]