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Hd Qrs Dist of Alabama
Montgomery Ala Mch 27th 1866

Cadle C Jr
Bvt Col & AAG
Swayne

States that on the 17th inst a military Guard who went to arrest a man at or near West point charged with shooting a Freedman were driven away by force of arms and two of the Guard struck with pistol balls two of the men engaged in the resistance are since arrested and enclosed are charges and specification against them with request to convene a military commission to try them

Two Enclosures