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Vicksburg, Miss. August 18" 1868. Respectfully returned to Bvt Major Greene, Acting Asst. Adjt. General. Under orders from the Commanding General Fourth Mil. District, I was stationed from July 13" ultimo until the 3rd instant at Pass Christian with a detachment of the 24" U.S. Infantry. My especial duty was to investigate the alleged assassination of Benj. H. Orr late member of the Mississippi Constitutional Convention by T.K. Moyers, Editor of the Hansboro Democrat (to which allusion is made in the within communication.) This investigation resulted in releasing Mr. Moyers from military arrest and in handing him over to the jurisdiction of the local civil courts, the circumstances attending the homicide being of such a nature as not to justify trial by Military Commission. [Stamp} Freedman's Bureau State of Miss AUG 10 1868 Received {Stamp} During the times I remained at Pass Christians I had occasion to visit personally Bay St. Louis, and possessed opportunities of obtaining information in regard to the condition of the freedmen at many other points along the coast. At the Pass and Bay St. Louis it must be acknowledged that they are in the full enjoyment of all political rights and privileges conferred upon them by law, and any statement alledging physical suffering and destitution is simply {?}. No one has ever suffered from starvation along that coast within the memory of any living inhabitant, the waters around which oysters and fish of every description and unequalled quality, and are so easily obtained in large numbers that they form the principal diet of all classes of people. I believe from the "Regules" to the Mobile Bay there has not been a man or woman suffered for the necessaries of life even during the late war when the ports were closed by blockade, and so far as the social and political rights of Union citizens, black or white, are concerned, I am satisfied they meet with no more interference or proscription there than they do in any other section of the south. Thomas H. Norton Captain 24" Infantry Bvt. Major U.S.A. Wrapper -
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