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In Nottoway County there is little change in the feeling evinced towards the Freedmen. By the respectable class of citizens, they are treated justly, but occasionally cases of barbarous treatment and injustice by the prejudiced part of the community are reported. it is to be regretted that the latter class are in the majority at present. The Freedmen of this County have suffered considerable by the avarice and extortion of their employers, who furnished them food and necessaries at such extortionate prices, that after paying their debts they will hardly have anything left to commence the New Year with. 

Owing to the improvident manner in which the Freedmen are disposing of their wages and the exhorbitant prices charged them by their employers and the merchants for goods. I have reason to expect that there will be suffering among them during the coming winter.

I am Gen'l,
Very Respectfully
Your Obdt Servant,
D. Jerome Connolly.
Brvt Capt U.S. Vols.
Asst Suprdt.

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