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and expect to get "shed" of all applications before long.

There are two colored churches being erected in the City.  The Methodists are building a costly edifice, second in size to but one, in town.

Schools are progressing finely.  In every place where a school is needed, the freedmen are making efforts to establish one, & in such localities, big and little, when not employed, are to found with book in hand.

The health of the freedmen in my Dis. is good. There is a very friendly feeling existing between the races, particularly on the side of the whites, who waylay the col'd people by the roadside, button hole them on the street, and extend to them any amount of gratuitous & disinterested advice, as to who are their real friends, & for whom they should vote.

I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt. Svt.
Louis W. Stevenson
2 Lt. V.R.C. & A.S.A.C.

Thro. Capt R.S. Lacey
Agt. in charge 7th Sub. Dist.