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Bureau R. F & A.L.
Office of A. S. A. Comr 3rd Div., 6th Sub-Dist. Va.
Tappahannock, Essex Co. Va. Oct. 1st 1867.

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown,
Asst Comr Bur. R F & A.L.; Va.

General,
I have the honor to report the following in compliance with Circular No. 6, dated Hd. Qrs. Asst. Comr. Richmond Va. January 29, 1866.

The Temperance Society that was organized here has not been attended to lately on account of the Freedmen being engaged in holding political meetings and trying to select a suitable person to represent them in the Constitutional Convention.

The feeling on the part of the white towards the Freedmen is no more friendly than it ever was, and the hatred of the whites towards a Union man is as bad today as it was during the war and were it not for the Military authority they would