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Specification 2nd In this that the said Joshua Adams did attempt to strike with a gun Private Edwin W. Fosdick of the Eighth Regiment of Iowa Veteran Volunteer Infantry, in the service of the United States; while endeavoring to arrest one Joe Adams in accordance with orders received from the Assistant Superintendent of the 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.
Geo. N. Hammond
Asst. Sup't. Bureau of R. F. and A. L.

Witnesses

Seg't Thos W. Reynolds
Private Frank Newman       8th Reg't. Iowa Vet. Vol. Infty.
Edwin W. Fosdick