johnson, wounded patrick thompson, a freedman. incidentsnot isolated and the occurred everywhere throughout the state. bureau agent sydney smith reported that charles murray, a black man, had gone in search of his son and was dimly murdered. lieutenant w, the super assistant tended in -- the superintendent had called and of black menth had been injured by a group of white men because refuse to play the banjo for them, as he did not know how. lieutenant massey, the leader james county,nd wrote that if it were not for the controlling hand and the bureau and military authorities, i am satisfied that the whites would treat them in the most unfair and unjust manner. massey noticed that the whites people fairlyeed and they were the exception. he said that blacks were very better and that they were suspicious. 1867, the same man reported that whites in the neighboring counties to york treated blacks harshly and cruelly, noting that freed calle are compelled to their employers, master and mrs., and they are not prayed -- paid properly, if at all. instead of encouraging words to called out they were without measure. in september