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officer that I had locked up all the corn and that himself and family were about to perish; that he had received orders from Gen Miles to go down and take thirty and his whole plantation – or relives the negro. The Agt. soon satisfied Lt. Ebeck in regard to the starving by handing him the book of rations which showed they were issued as usual. Here I think the matter should have rested – but Lt. Ebeck proceeds to divide the crop. My Agt tells him my directions – To be sent for in case any one came to do justice to Moses; that he wanted to send for me so