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Newville Cumberland Co. Va.
September 30th. 1866 -

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown A.A.G.

General
In accordance with Genl Orders No__  Hd. Qrs. Asst. Comr, State of Virginia I  have the honor to make the following Report of Freedmens affairs for the counties of Surry and Sussex Va. for the month of September 1866 =

In both counties the Freedmen have been working with a considerable degree of diligence, though I have to protest against the great number of holidays they are inclined to take, and also against their late hours for beginning work in the morning of the days in which they labor.

Many of the Freedwomen who have husbands believe that they themselves ought not to work - and so either walk around the Country in idleness or set in the fire corner; and the evil does not end here, for they instill bad principles into the minds of the men and those of the more industrious of their own sex. A large proportion of the difficulties that occur in the counties originate in one form or another with women of this class.

During the month very few troubles have arisen in Surry, but in the earlier part of it, I experienced a number of such cases in Sussex. More recently however the latter county has become almost as quiet as the former-

The character of these troubles was various. In some cases they originated in

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-06 10:26:35 pls read instructions, indents are to be ignored, words corrected, etc., lots of missing punctuation added, dont need to double space after sentence endings ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-06 10:47:35 included the "__" that the author placed after "Genl Orders" since apparently he didn't know the order number at the time of writing. ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-06 17:24:01