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the demand the Freedman an industrious and receive fair wages for their labor. 
The State of feeling existing between the whites and the freedman is not very good. The freedmen being disposed to treat the whites in general with suspicion and place very little confidence in them, the prejudice of the whites against the colored people is still very strong, rendered more so at this time by the present political excitement, no organization for the furtherance of the cause of temperance has been effected in this Division though endeavors have been made for that purpose, the Freedman 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.