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endeavoring to arrest one Joe Adams, in accordance with instructions received from the Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen of the District of Montgomery State of Alabama, All this at or near West Point Georgia on or about the seventeenth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty six.

Charge 2nd Assaulting United States soldiers while they were on duty.

Specification 1st In this that the said Joshua Adams did discharge a [[strikethrough]] pistol [[/strikethrough]] shot from a pistol at certain United States soldiers, to wit; Sergeant Thomas N. Reynolds, Private Isaah Newman, and Private Ephrim N. Fosdick all of the Eigth Regiment of Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry in the service of the United States; to their great peril and danger while the said soldiers were endeavoring to arrest one Joe Adams in accordance with instructions received by them from the Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen of the District of Montgomery State of Alabama, under whom they were serving.

All of this at or near West Point Georgia on or about the seventeenth day of March eighteen hundred and sixty six.