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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen & Abandoned Lands, [[crossed out]] Sub District of Memphis Chief Superintendent's Asst Commissioners [[/crossed out]] States of Kentucky & Tennessee Asst Commissioners Office [[crossed out]] Memphis, [[/crossed out]] Nashville Tenn. July 6th 1866 Colonel, I have the honor to submit the following report of the disturbance which took place between the Whites & Blacks at Smyrna Tenn on the 4th day of July 1866. The order having been received at too late an hour for me to take the evening train I proceeded to Smyrna mounted accompanied by one orderly and arrived there at half past eleven oclock P.M. The town was very quiet, the disturbance having died out during the afternoon. I found the magistrate engaged in issuing warrants for the arrest of several colored persons who had been engaged in the affair. I recommended that only such parties be arrested during the night as they had reason to apprehend would leave the County. My reasons for this was that
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