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Bureau Refugees Freedman and Abandoned Land
Head Quarters 6" Div 6"Sub Dist Va
King George Court House,  Va Sept 30" 1868

Bvt Brig Genl O Brown 
Asst Commr Bureau RF&AL
Richmond Va 

General
In compliance with the requirements of Circular No.6 dated Head Quarters Asst Commr District of Virginia Richmond. January 29" 1866. I have the honor to transmit my report for the month ending this day. 

From observations made in my visits to different parts of the county during the month I find the people generally very anxious for the interests and welfare of their county hence are beautifying their homes. cleaning up the growth of young joinings which for several years past have almost taken possession of their fields and in fact begin to appear as though civilization was on the march, once more. The people are poor, many of them are very poor, ie, white people, but they begin to realize the fact that, cursing the government the negro, the Bureau etc. is not the better way to repair the damages done by the war, and restore good feeling among all classes instead 

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