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0157

Bureau Refugees Freedmen & Abandoned L
Hd. Qrs 1st. Div, 8th, Sub, Dist. Va
Wytheville Va Oct 31st 1867.

Col. Garrick Mallery,
A.A.A. Genl
Richmond V.a.

Colonel
I have the honor to submit the following report of Bureau affairs in general in the 1st Div of the 8th, Sub, Dist, for the month of October. 

The Freedmen are making a hard struggle to provid for themselves & families but have a great many difficulties to contend with  Chief among these is the want of any permanent home  Being dependent upon their employers for a place to live in they are subjected to many petty annoyances under the threat that unless they submit they will be thrown out of doors. 

I am fearful that in many instances from the failure of crops & having large families many of which are composed

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