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Office of Sub-Assistant Commissioner,
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Sub District of Greenville,
Greenville, Ala., July 25th 1867.

Col. O.D. Kinsman,
Sub. Asst Comm'r

Sir:

I have the honor respectfully to report [[strikethrough]] to [[/strikethrough]] the circumstances of an atrocious massacre of freedmen which occurred about the last week of May. 1865, and which has never been made the subject of any judicial investigation, or had any notice taken of it, by the so called state courts. The participants are still most of them living in the community, and are men of large means and influence.

James Travick, freedman, living near Greenville states that some three weeks after Gen. Smith's force passed through Greenville, his son Nathan, who had accompanied them, returned from Montgomery to his former master. he remained at home about a week, when a company of men, under the leadership of Washington Travick, and including Thos. Travick, Robt. Yeldell, Wm Yeldell, Jackson Lucky, Archie Lucky, Benj Larden, James Brown, Henry Jones, James Jones Allen Seals, Uriah Heaton, Curtis Steen, Abner Jones,