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Filed A.4 (B.R.F.& A.L.) Vol 2 67 Americus April 23 1867 43 A9 O.A.C. Vol 2 1867 Anonymous Reporting outrage committed on a Freed man in Preston Webster Co. by Meredith Statum, Yankee Sims & James Baldwin. [[strikethrough]] Filed [[/strikethrough]] Letter to J.D. Stapleton Agt Preston Webster Co. LsB. P81 No 442 with copy of that portion of this letter enclosed within by red marks (...)" [[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]] [[stamp]] OFFICE ASS'T COMM'R BUREAU R.F.& A.L. GEORGIA REC'D MAY 23 67 [[/stamp]] 4 Enclosures Office Sub. Asst. Commr. Bur R.F. etc. Cuthbert, Ga. May 17. 1867. Riv. May 13.67 Respectfully forwarded to Capt. E. Pickett V.R.C. A.A.A. Genl, Macon Ga. as the crime was committed outside of this Sub. District, which fact became known in course of the proceedings established. On receipt of this anonymous letter, a copy of the principal part of it with instructions, of which a copy is annexed as Enclosure A, as the original was not returned, was sent to J.D. Stapleton, then agent for Webster Co. His proceedings in the form of an affidavit of freedman Simon Livingston, a report of his, setting forth that said Simon was under sentence by him for violation of his contract with John Stratham when these cruelties were committed on him and last a copy of the evidence given in a commitment trial before the County Judge of Marion Co, where the accused parties live, appear, the first two in Enclosure B, the last in Enclosure C., It appears that Simon Livingston was cruelly treated by somebody as the marks on his body were plainly visible & that he must have been in the care of the defendants chained etc while it happened, still none of the white witnesses know anything about it how the marks came there. The inquires of Agt. Stapleton in relation to payment of cost and further treatment of Simon have been answered in a letter of which a copy is annexed as Encl, D, & in which he is also requested to state why he took action in a case outside of his county. F A H Gaebel 1 Lt. U.S. Inf. S. Asst. Com Bur R.F. etc. E & M Vol 2. P.1. [[stamp]] OFFICE ASS'T COMM'R BUREAU R.F.& A.L. GEORGIA REC'D MAY 23 67 [[/stamp]]
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