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The freed people are generally temperate quiet and industrious behaving themselves worthy of a more enlightened people.

A decided improvement in the treatment by the whites of the freedmen is visible. very little violence towards them is used, and none by the better class.

All of which I would respectfully submit

I am General very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
Morton Havens  Lt V.R.C.
and Asst Sub Asst Com