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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] 

Dr. Mays, opposed succession but when Virginia passed the Ordinance accepted a position as Colonel and Aid-de-Camp to Governor Litcher which he held until the close of the War. He endorses the Military Bill and is in favor of educating freedmen and the Civil Right's Bill.
Messers. Tunstall, Morris and Turner opposed secession, took no active part in the war and sincerely accept the situation. 
Mr. Vaiden opposed secession, was a member of the Legislature some years before the war; entered the Confederate services and served as a private during the war, but was during the whole time an  object of suspicion on account of his previously expressed Union sentiments. 
The freedmen whose names are submitted are the most intelligent in the County, but as far as I know not one of them can read or write; they are however honest and respectable.
During the war the best of the negroes left here and very few have returned, so that of those here now I do not know of one whom I can, recommend for  

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