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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & A.L.
Office A.S. Asst. Comr. 3 Div 2 Sub Dist of Va.
Laurenceville, Va. April 30th 1868

Bvt Brig Genl O. Brown
Asst Commissioner
Richmond Va

General
In obedience to Circular 6 series of 1866 Hd. Qrs Asst. Comr. State of Va. I have the honor to report that there is no perceptible improvement in the feeling existing between the Freedmen & Whites. The course pursued by the Whites toward the colored people tends to engender prejudice than otherwise, and as the political contest approaches the feeling deepens. Fearful threats are also thrown out to the Freedmen if they do not cast their votes a certain way. The indignities, however, that the Freedmen thus receive at the hands of the Whites are not calculated to allay the prejudices that exist upon their part. Consequently they will very probably cast their suffrages as they may conceive to be for their interests regardless of the threats & intimidations of the Whites.

Some Union White men in the County

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