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Office Sgt. Bu. R F and AL. Tuscaloosa Ala
Sep 14th 1868. 

To Col'n Edwin Beecher
Asst Comr Bu. R F & AL. 
Montgomery Ala


Sir,
I have the hon'r to Report the disagreeable fact, that there has been two horrible murders committed in this county during the past week.

On thursday morning about 10. A.M. NB. Stalmaker the mail carrier from this to Newtonville, was shot dead from his Horse, while going along the Moores Bridge Road in the edge of Sipsey Swamp about twenty odd miles from this, & near Moores Bridge P.O. he is only one more of many Union men & freedmen that have been murdered in that section since the surrender.  On Friday night the 10th inst, a "gang of men disguised" went to the house of a freedman (in North Port) by the name of Moses Hughs, broke open his House & hunted for him, and not finding him, enquired which was his wife, then went to the bed where she lay & deliberately shot her through the Brain & left her dead; Hughs saved his life for the time being, by getting