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Office of R.F. &. A.L. "Bureau Greensboro NC Oct 31" 1865 Charges and Specification Against John Galloway Capt of Rockingham Police Charge Abusing and causing Colord persons to be whiped By his official Authority Specification 1st That the Said John Galloway Citizen of Rockingham County State of North Carolina Did order as a captain of the County Police for the county of Rockingham North Carolina Peter Colord Man tied up and whiped with A Leather Strap Seventy five Lashes on his Bare Back" Pleads Guilty of Ordering it done by" his official Authority [signature] William C Mills" [[/signature]] Capt and Asst Supt Freedman for Sub Dist of Greensboro