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Division is good, the Freedmen are prospering there is sufficient labor for the demand, and the Freedmen are industrious and recieve for wages for their labor.

The State of Feeling existing between the whites and the Freedmen is not very good rendered more so by the present political excitement, the Freedmen are disposed to treat the whites in general with suspicion and place very little confidence in them the prejudice of the whites against the Freedmen in still very Strong. No organization for the furtherance of the Cause of Temperance had been effected in this Division, though endurance has been made for that purpose, the Freedmen in this Division are not inclined to be intemperate.

Very Respectfully
Your obt Servt
G.M. Fleming
1st Lieut 11th U.S. Infantry
Asst. Sub. Asst. Comr.

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