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one feeling prevailing throughout the County, which is to get back into the Union at the earliest possible day, and pay due obedience to all the laws of the land.

The various Sabbath Schools in the County are doing a large amount of good.  There will be a day school established here on the 1st of October which will be well attended

Efforts are being made in various parts of the County to establish Temperance Societies, but as yet none have been formed.  The Freedmen seeming to think that their secret benevolent associations are all sufficient, but I am in hopes to get one or two started very soon, and feel assured that once under way, they will be popular, and productive of great good.  Although as I have previously stated in my reports the amount of intemperance among the Freedmen is very small indeed

The crops of corn and Tobacco were greatly damaged in some portions of this County by the late Freshets, but not to that extent at first apprehended.  There is promise of good crops of both products

There is but little destitution in the County and such as there is, is promptly attended to by the overseers of the poor

Good order and quiet prevails generally throughout the County

Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
Geo M. Buffum,
Lieut V R C Asst Sub Asst Comr Bureau
R F & A L