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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters, 8th Sub, District of Virginia. 

WYTHEVILLE, VA., Sept. 30, 1868. 

Bt. Capt. Will. A. Coulter.
U.S.A.  A.A.A. Genl.
Richmond Va. 

Capt
I have the honor to report that there are but very few Freedmen in this Sub. Dist. who cannot find work. There are more Freedwomen without employment and unable to procure it. Freedwomen however find no more difficulty in procuring employment than a poor woman in the North. 

About 60 percent of the Freedmen get steady employment. 25 per cent would work steady but leave their employers mostly for want of prompt payments the other 25 per cent will not work steadily. They work a day or do an odd job and then stop until hunger drives them to further exertion. 

I am Capt Very Respectfully Your Obt Servant. 
W.G. Thomas
Bt. Brig. Genl. Capt 20th. Infty
S.A.C.

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