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to the encouragement given to the rebellious spirit - by the result of late elections, and the defeat in their own state. These people believe that the whole work of reconstruction will be stoked, and that the Southern States, by the aid of northern allies, will be able to get back into the union without negro suffrage, and without disfranchisement. Three Freedmens schools have reopened again, for the session, in my Division, one at Fincastle County, two in Bedford county. They are all in a flurishing condition and well attended each averaging about seventy five pupils.

I am
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
B.F. Shaum
2d Lt & Bvt Capt V.R.C. & A.S.A.Comr.