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Office Post Q.M & A.C.S.
Selma Ala. Oct 25th 1866 

Lieut. J. F. Conyngham, }
A.A A. General         }
Montgomery Ala         }

Lieutenant, 
On Sunday evening the 21st about half past 8 o'clock, a colored Man in the employ of the Government as Watchman of the Commissary Store House at this Past, the old Confederate Wayside Hospital while on duty was shot dead, on receiving information of the affair I hastened to the Spot, and found the Body still warm; on making inquiry, I learned that when the shot was fired three Men was on the porch of the adjoining building, about twelve feet from where the body lay. They heard the shot and went to the spot, and found the body laying at the back door of the Store House in the Alley leading from Water."