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receive medical attendance properly. The following is the number of destitute colored persons that have come under my observation that need relief to prevent actual suffering

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| Men | Women | Children | Total |   |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| At Poor House | 3 | 7 | 2 | 12 |   |
| At Mr Lowrys infirm | 1 | 2 |  | 3 |   |
| In country |   | 1 | 3 | 4 |   |
| In Town | 1 | 3 |   | 4    |
|   | 5 | 13 | 5 | 23 |   |

Those three colored persons at Mr Lowrys are infirm and not able to do anything He has been keeping them but saith that he is not able to keep them much longer, as he is poor and an invalid himself. There are no doubt others that are in want whom I have not seen or heard of, and some that are working farms for a portion of the crops have nothing to live on until the crop is made.
I am very respectfully
Your Obt Servt.
B.F. Shaum
Bvt. Capt & Asst. Supt B.R.F & c.

To 
Brevet. Brig. Gen. O.Brown
Assistant Commissioner State Va.
Richmond, Va.

Thro Capt R.S.Lacey
A.Q.M & Supt of 7th Dist Va.

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