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the Freedmen, or at least very few cases are brought to the information of the authority, who are disposed to take charge of any cases that may be brought to them, the Freedmen are more disposed however to help one another and not allow their friends to go to the Poor house.

The State of Feeling existing between the whites and the Freedmen is improving. The rights of Suffrage to the Freedmen has been the sole cause of a good feeling between the two races. The Freedmen are using their votes and endeavor to obtain knowledge and information themselves, and their children as sent to school as much as feasible in order that they may become useful men and women.

I am very respectfully
Your Obedient Servant
J. W. Barnes
Agent, Bureau R.F. & A.L. 

Thro Brevet Major
J.H. Remington
Sub Asst Comr, 1st Sub Dist Va
Norfolk Va.

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-14 16:27:39 To orginal transcriber: Please transcribe signatures in full with the name and any title, rank, etc as it is written. Do not use bracket notation [signature] in place of a transcribed signature block. Added missing signature block, as well as the "thro" notation block.