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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A Lands
Office Asst. Sub Asst. Com'r 4th Div 6th Sub Dist V'a
Warsaw August 28th 1868.

Bvt. Brig Genl. O. Brown
Asst. Comr. Bur. R.F. and A.L.
State of Virginia

General,

In compliance with instructions contained in Cir No "6" Series 1866 from H'd Q'rs Asst. Com'r State of V'a. I have the honor to report. That the feeling existing between the Whites and Blacks of this Division is as unfriendly as ever. There seems to have been an increase of bitterness however during the month. owing probably to the facts of the postponement of the election and that politics and political meetings have been abandoned by both parties, for the present.

Such apprehension is felt by the freedmen. as to their prospects for next year, fully two thirds of them have received notice to vacate the

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