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There have been no complaints of injustice on the part of the Civil Authorities toward the Freed people in this Division that have been sustained by the evidence when the facts have been investigated by the Military authorities. The feeling between the races has not exhibited itself in the form of open hostility but rather by apathy on the part of the Whites in regard to the improvement in the moral and mental condition of the Freedmen. The able bodied men of the Division are employed on small wages, but sufficient to support life. Owing to the fact that the fishing season has closed and that it has been an unusually poor one, numbers of infirm men, women and children, have been thrown out of employment and the supply of fish offal, upon which