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Office of Assist. Supt.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &
Greenville, Ala.
March 9 1866

Colonel C Cadle Jun.
A.A.G. 

Colonel, 
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 5th Incl. and in reply beg leave to state that I have collected the following facts connected with the late disturbance between the Military and Citizens. 

On Thursday March 1st several hundred women came here for Rations, among them were a crowd of abandoned characters, who remained over night; they made assignations with Citizens, and had a rendezvous near the Barracks:  the facts as proved by reliable testimony, and by the confession of the Citizen "Smith", (one of the parties) on oath, and when supposed to be at the point of death, were these - 
Smith and some others with a number of women were near the residence of Judge Porter