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Office Supt Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A.L.
Dist. No. Ala. Huntsville Ala. Feby. 22nd 1867,

Bvt Maj. General Wager Swayne
Asst. Comr. B.R.F and A.L. State of Ala,
Montgomery Ala,
General
In compliance with your telegram of the 22nd inst. I have the honor to submit the following report of murders and other outrages committed upon the persons of Freed people, in the District of North Ala. during the year of 1866 that have been reported to this office.

There have been four (4) men murdered and twenty (20) men women and children, shamefully treated by shooting, cutting, whipping and other forms of torture; and from time to time as these cases have been reported to me, I have sought redress for the Freedmen at the hands of the local authorities; and have exhausted my feeble authority in laboring for such redress, and the punishment of such offenders, but in each case have seen my efforts fail to obtain such results. In some of these cases I have buried the murdered men and had the murderers arrested, but they have universally been cleared by the so-called civil authorities; some by trifling fines, and others giving worthless bail, and escaping under the protection of negro haters generally. 
I am General very respectfully,
Your obedient Servant,
Jno B Callis
Bvt Col U.S.V. and Supt.
B.R.F. and A.L. Dist. Nor. Ala,

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