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D.A. Steele's Farm
May 6th 1867

Gen. Wager Swain
Montgomery. Ala.

Sir,
I am under the necessity of asking you, as Chief of the Freedman's Bureau to send a guard to arrest a Freedman in my employ whose name is Frank.  His offence is as follows.  This evening Frank began a quarrel with an other man about a certain woman, and notwithstanding every effort I could make without proceeding to violent measures raised a riot in the