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BRF and A Lands
Hd Qr 2nd Div 1 S. Dist Va
Wise Farm, Va, July 31, 1868

Bvt Brig Genl O Brown
Asst Com BRF and AL Dist of Va
Richmond Va

General,
I have the honor to report pursuant to Cir No 6 Series 1866 from Hd Qrs Asst Com Dist of Va. that the general condition of Bureau Affairs in this Division is encouraging. The Freedmen are all employed many of them in farming on their own account. The prospect is now good for a fair crop of corn. The trucking season has furnished employment to many women and children. There are several old and informed persons and widows with families in this Division for whom it has been found necessary  to make requisition for rations, in all 49 persons, have been furnished rations during the present month. The School mentioned in my last Report still in session, but the prospects are not encouraging. No Temperance Society has been organized. The Freedmen however are temperate. 

The cleared portion of the Wise Farm is all under cultivation and promises an abundant crop to reward

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-27 07:43:18 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2024-03-27 08:46:38 The "Wise Farm" is in a number of these letters. New York Times, 7/19/1865: Yesterday I visited HENRY A. WISE's farm up the eastern branch of the Elizabeth River. The mansion until a few days ago was occupied by the teachers of the Freedmen's Bureau.