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Jacksen [[Jackson]] Miss this Febury [[February]] the 12th 67

To the comanding [[commanding]] officer of the Miss department of USA Troops &c

Der Sir purmit [[permit]] me to comunicat [[communicate]] sum [[some]] facts regarding the State of afairs [[affairs]] in Choctaw county miss  In a short time after the removil [[removal]] of the garison [[garrison]] from the Town of grensborough there curmenced [[commenced]] a truce of percecution [[persecution]] against all men ho had bin [[been]] loyal or showed sines [[signs]] of loyalty to the government of the usa tyey was driven from town by threts [[threats]] & abuses & frequent fist cups the [[??]] & revolver on all occasines [[occasions]] where the number was not suficient [[sufficient]] to stand thare [[their]] [[?]] & one young man by the name of Destuso here is now a citisen [[citizen]] of said county was taken up by said mob & cursed before gens Bruntly of the so caled [[called]] conferat [[confederate]] army & made to renounce his alegiance [[allegiance]] to the USA swar [[swear]] to support the confedracy [[confederacy]] this & other offences [[offenses]] of simillar [[similar]] carecter [[character]] was the coman [[commen]] order of the day June July & August 1866 in the month of august the young men of union proclivites resolved to bar the abuses that was heaped on them now longer they gathered themselve into a company numbering about 70 & went down on the greensborough mob determined to seek that justice that had bin so ridgedly denide them by force If kneed [[need]] be they found the town mob forted up in the courthouse wither all the armes [[arms]] & amunition [[ammunition]] that they could lay thar [[their]] hands on but the asilants [[assailants]] surounded the place & demanded peace & security for  

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