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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and A Lands.
Head Quarters Asst Supt 8th Dist of Va.
Abingdon Va. November 25th 1866.

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

General
I have the honor to make the following report of affairs in general. pertaining to the Bureau in my Sub District. Comprising the Counties of Washington. Russell and Buchanan. for the month of November 1866. As follows,

I am now engaged on taking the Census of the Freedmen and. am more than half through with Washington County. Nearly all the heads of families in the Sub District say that they have raised enough in cropping this year to Support them until the coming crop next Year. The Widdow women have got along So far without much Suffering but their Children are much in need of clothing and Shoes.
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