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Office Asst SUpt. RF and AL
Sub Dist of Nelson County
Lovington VA Supt 1st 1866
A-80-362

STevenson Louis W.
VRC. and Asst Cupt
Reports in compliance with Circ No 6 c.s. States crops are  most made and yielded more sbundantly than for years. that freedmen working in cropping contracts will not have enough to keep them during the winter Is opposed to working freedmen on share gives reasons. States the has purchased a house and given it to freedmen for 3 yrs to use as School.  And for a church and hopes that a teacher may be employed from the county.  feeling in favor of schools is gaining daily.

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 Bureau R F and AL
Hd Qrs Supt 7th Dist of Va
Lynchburg Va. Sept 3d 1866
Respectfully forwarded to Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown
AAAG
R.S. Lacey
Capt and SUpt

Extract for Genl Howard