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houses in their midst with a great deal of eagerness & I have no doubt that these institutions when completed, if properly sustained will be productive of much good

No cases have come under my observation where freedmen have been discharged by their employers on account of exercising the elective franchise, while honest, industrious & peacably disposed freedmen appear to be treated by the whites with as much kindness and consideration as those of a like color

Very Respectfully
Your Obdnt. Serv't 
Wm H Sloan
2nd Lieut. 11th Infty
A S A Comr

Thro Hd Qrs. 5th Sub-Dist Va