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Hazlehurst Miss July 5th 1868
Gen A.C. Gillem 
Vicksburg Miss

General
I hope you will excuse me for taking the liberty of addressing you this letter, but as I may be in possession of facts unknown to your official reporters induce me to adress you this letter, on Wednesday last it being the day for the election at this place, some 200 freedmen who wanted me, (I being the Republican Candidate for The Legislature) to form in procession with them and march to the Polls. We formed in procession near the residence of Mr. Healy and was quarter marching, with Banners Pictures and U.S. Flags, without musics or any nois of any kind whichever, we did not get 1,50 yards before being met by a mob our Banners Pictures  and flags were torn and broken up and taken from us, and the men in the procession  brickbatted and forced to run for safety. They were chaised at the