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Bureau R.F. and A. Lands
Rockbridge - Bath - & Alleghany Cos. Va. =
Office 6th Division 7th Sub-Dist Va.
Lexington Va. August 31st 1867

Brvt. Brig. Genl O. Brown
Asst. Com. State of Virginia

General

In accordance with Circular No 6 Bureau R.F. and A.L. Hd. Qrs. Asst. Com. State of Virginia - dated Richmond Va. Jan. 29th 1866 - I have the honor to make the following Report, for the month of August, of the condition of Freedmans Affairs in the counties of Rockbridge - Bath and Alleghany.

To a cursory observer no signs of any changes in the mutual kind relations which I have heretofore reported as existing between the white and colored citizens are perceptable - but numerous little circumstances are presenting themselves to my attention which, taken altogether, convince me that an estrangement - if not an antagonism - is beginning to work between the two classes.

Politics, and the issues involved in it, may have something to do with this change of sentiment in both parties, but, in my opinion, this has been less potent with the colored people than the machinations of a few inconsiderate, foolish or malicious white men who, by pernicious counsels, fill their minds with jealousy, distrust, hatred of their former masters - and these sentiments react in the bosoms of the latter, for so sure as love and confidence beget love and confidence, so sure evil passions mutually engender