Freedmen's Bureau Records: W. Storer How to Orlando
Brown, December 11, 1865
Summary:
How reports the creation of a board for trials involving free blacks in
Staunton.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters, Sixth
District, Virginia,
Colonel O. Brown
Assistant Commissioner
Richmond, Virginia
December 11th 1865
Winchester, Virginia,
Colonel
I have the honor to Report that a Board for the trial of cases in which Freedmen
are concerned has been organized at Staunton, Virginia
by the selection of,
Mr. William J. Dews, for Freedmen
Mr Harvey Risk,
for Whites
I am, Colonel
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient
Servant
W. Storer How
Captain & Assistant Quartermaster
Superintendent Sixth District
