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Vickens Stations Miss Sept 12 1867

Genl. Ord.

Dear Sir,
I am under the necessity of reporting to you by letter that which should be reported in person I think, but for the want of money to defray my expenses, I would come to Vicksburg and make my report to you. I have a small farm near Vaiden upon which is living my mother and her family also M. K. Ingram and with them was an old negroe woman living that had spent a long life in the family, who was loved and respected by all who new [[knew]] her, for the maner in which she had conducted her self through life.  On Saturday the last day of August the old woman with one of he [[her]] grand children a little girl about five years old started to one of the neighbour, a bout a mile distant and was met on the way by some one and most cruelly murdered without cause or provocation And the Civil Officers have don all they could to get at the guilty parties but have so far faild But the people all think they know who did the crime and it is the opinion of the citizens that if the suposed guilty parties were arrested