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Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands Head Quarters 6th Div 6th Sub Dist Va King George C.H. Va. June 1st 1868 Bvt Brig Genl O Brown Asst Comr Dist of Virginnia Richmond Va General In compliance with Circular No 6 Head Quarters Asst Comr Dist of Virginia, Richmond Va January 29" 1866 I have the honor to transmit the following report for the month of May 1868. Since entering upon my duties in this county on the first of the month I have become pretty well acquainted with the people who I find just as bitter and rebelious toward the government as they possibly could have been at anytime during the rebellion, many of the land holders threaten to drive the colored people off their lands for voting their sentiments- every attempt that can be will be made to intimidate them. The "Bourbons" of this county who for the last century have monopolized place and power and finally
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"Bourbons"-used here as a derogatory reference to the Bourbon monarchs of France prior to the French revolution