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told he should not vote at all. In consequence of this, and as threats were freely made that if they attempted to vote the Republican ticket they would be killed; & as while they had no arms themselves the whites were fully armed, they had to return home without voting. Gilbert Cage, Gibs Cage, and Samuel McIntosh, whites, were among those present who were active in preventing the freedmen from voting. 

I have received other reports, that at Calhouns Mill Polls a fusillade was kept up all day so as to scare the freedmen away & one was there wounded by a pistol ball, it is said accidentally

At Cokesbury there was a Military Guard but the previous night the house of a freedman near that place, he having in his possession a lot of Republican tickets for distribution, was forcibly entered, as reported, by a Mr Baozer, Tom Arnold, Gus Aiken, and Bill Monday, all white, and the tickets destroyed by them. In consequence of that the freedmen the next day could get no Republican tickets to vote.

At Bradleys Mills in the early part of the day all was quiet, & a few Republican votes were cast, but it is reported