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that will settle itself and requires only now and then advice given in the proper spirit to allay it. There is a section about 4 by 8 miles square in Fauquier county called the "Free State" inhabited by poor whites who have degenerated to a position far below the freedmen and worse than any people that it has been my province to meet with Whiskey is almost their only aim some few work but none do as well as the colored man There is no schools there and the children grow up with out any moral or intelectual culture. If one or two schools could be established in this neighborhood it would do an immense good to a people but one remove from barbarism.
The Freedmen in this Division seem better prepared for the coming winter than before and none have applied for assistance during the fall months
I am General very respectfully
Your Obt Servt
W.S. Chase
A.S.A.Comr