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City Point, Va.,
August 31st 1866.

Bvt. Lt Col Jas. A Bates
A.A.A. Genl
Sir,
   I have the honor to report that the general condition of freedmens affairs in this County is quiet. Two or three reports have reached me of parties (said to be negros) firing into  the houses of citizens at night.  One singular thing in regard to it is, that parties fired at were with one exception northern men.  Freedmen are generally friendly with  persons from the north, and I think there is no evidence to show that these outrages were committed by freedmen, I have several times offered to cooperate with the civil authorities in the execution of any plan they might devise for the detection and arrest of these disturbers of the public peace.  I think there are more freed people here, at City Point, than can find profitable employment, although most of them are now at work, being employed in the U.S. Burial Corps. the