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Treasury Department, Office of Internal Revenue, Washington, May 19th, 1866. Lieut Genl U.S. Grant Sir, Some six weeks ago I recd from Dr Thomas Haughey of Elyton Ala information, saying that two negroes (man & wife) the man having served in the federal army ten months) had returned to their home some two miles from Elyton, and a few nights after, they were taken out into the woods, inhumanly murdered, their bodies tied together and thrown into an old mill — that he had applied twice for troops to the Freedmans Bureau &c. That letter is in the hands of the Reconstruction Committee — Some few days since I received the letter from Dr H which I handed you this morning — and in addition I beg to say that Elyton is 90 miles from Huntsville, 60 from Tuskaloosa and about 100 from Montgomery, and that there are quite a number of negroes [[?]] there, and in its