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Centerville Marshall
County Alabama
Mar 7 1866

Maj Genl G H Thomas

Sir 
I am very sorry to inform you that it was scandalous in the way that the Election was carried on. It is one of the worst scenes that I ever seen  I have been four years in the Union Army and served in that Old Glorious Second Michigan Cavalry and I have been many times where the bullets flew very thick but I never thought my life in so much danger as I have been since I came to this place. Such shooting a going on and a real cold Blooded Murder was commited which is entirely Outrages in the Eyes of Civilized people of the United States. Now My Dear Sir. Nothing else was the trouble But Whiskey and the Old grudge. Viz.
A certain young man was in the Rebel Army and was wounded and got a Furlough and came home and after his Furlough had expired, he crossed the Tennessee River, and remained in our lines. Because he did not choose to fight against the United State. Today the Old Thing was renewed. They called him a Tory and one word brought on a nother untill there