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Fort Deposit. Ala. Dec 23. 1865
D. J. Sampley

Writes in reference to a mob who boasted of having killed six negroes, my impression is that no of the negroes were killed but thinks the mob thought so as a boy taken from my place who the left for dead came home naked and money taken from him &c