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Bureau R.F. & A L.
Office Agent 3rd Division, 1st Sub District, Virginia,
Suffolk Va August 31st 1867.

Brevet Brigadier General
O. Brown
Asst Comr, Bureau R.F. & A L.
Richmond Va.

General

I have the honor to transmit the following Monthly Report for the month of August 1867, in compliance with Circular No. 6, Bureau R.F. & A L., Head Quarters, Asst Commissioner Virginia, Richmond Va. January 29th 1866, of the Condition of Bureau Affairs, the State of Feeling existing between the Whites and the Freedmen, and other facts connected with the welfare of the Freedmen in the 3rd Division, 1st Sub District, Virginia, consisting of the Counties of Nansemond and Isle of Wight, Virginia.

The Condition of Bureau Affairs in this Division is good.  The Freedmen are industrious, and are in general employed at remunerative wages, and are doing well, and in some cases set examples of industry and attention to their families, worthy of imitation by some of the Whites.

The State of Feeling existing between the whites and the Freedmen is not very good, the Freedmen place very little or no confidence in the Whites, at the present time, the whites seem better disposed toward

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