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Auburn Ala. April 12th/66

Gen. Wager Swayne
Montgomery Ala.

Gen.
A Freedman living in this town supported his family - which is a large one - by hauling with 2 mules he claimed as his own. He has had them here since about the last of Jan. Some week ago 2 white men came from Opelika - an adjoining town - bringing with them an advertisement and offer of reward for 2 mules stolen on the 24th Feb. They took the 2 mules of the Freedman under cover of the advertisement. The Freedman applied to me to recover his mules for him. I went to Opelika to see the men and told them I knew the mules had been in Auburn before the 24th Feb. They pretended to have information of the owners and refused to give them