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Office Agt Bureau RF & AL
Blount Co Ala
Sep 3 1866

Col J B Callis

Sir
I have heard all the testimony in that shooting affair of which I spoke when at Huntsville last and find that one W J Jordan went to the Union Army in time of the war and one Manley Cornelius and others robed [[robbed]] his wife of about 800 lbs Bacon and about 200 bushels of corn and other things of smaller value and after the surrender Jordan went to Cornelius for pay for his property Cornelius gave him his note for 100 dollars after which time he (Cornelius) gave Jordan a mule for the note and Jordan had the mule in peasable possession about twelve months Cornelius knowing that a union man could not get his own before the traitor officers in our own Co went before a JP and swore to the mule and sent the Sheriff after him Jordan told him he would not

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