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82 property has been since Jany 10th 1866. I am Sir Very Respectfully Your obedient Servant W. H. Bower Lieut and A.A.A. Genl. 142 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Ab'd. Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioner's Office Nashville Tenn June 17th 1868 Pledger, Stephen Esqr. Alexandria Tenn. Sir: I am directed by the Assistant Commissioner to acknowledge the receipt of your letter dated June 3rd 1868, and in reply thereto, to inform you, that, owing to the present uncertain state of the Bureau, the proposed expenditure of One hundred Dollars ($100) on the school house at Alexandria, cannot be made. Until Congress takes action in reference to the Bureau the colored people at that place can rent, at a reasonable amount, a building for school purposes, the expense of which will be paid by this Office. I am Sir Very Respectfully Your obedient servant W. H. Bower Lieut and AAA Genl. 83 143 Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Aban'd. Lands State of Tennessee Assistant Commissioner's Office Nashville Tenn June 19th 1868 Thomas Major Genl. Geo. H. comd'g Dept. of the Cumberland General: It is my duty to call your attention to the state of affairs in Marshall County. For sometime past the Ku Klux Klan have been whipping colored men without any cause or provocation except that they had voted for Brownlow. Last monday night this band of ruffians took out Lewis Pigall, a blackman and had been whipping him for some time when they were fired on by a party of blacks. Several of the whites were wounded and they all ran away. Both whites and blacks then disbanded apparently. On the next day the blacks collected in a force of twenty seven armed men and started for Nashville via Murfreesboro. Some of these men have arrived here and some have been arrested at and near Murfreesboro. They stacked their arms at the National Cemetry near Murfreesboro. I have ordered Bvt. Lieut Col J. W. Gilray to proceed to Marshall Country and call the people together to warn them of the danger they are in and of the necessity of suppressing the Ku Klux Kan. The blacks are desperate and want only a leader to make war at once on their oppressors. General, something decided must be done if a war of races is to be prevented. About the same state of affairs exists in Maury County. There must be some means of punishing these cowardly men who go about in disguise to whip negros and commit outrages on them. The civil Offices are utterly worthless. The condition of affairs is disgraceful to civilization. I am General Very Respectfully Your obedient servant W. P. Carlin Bvt. Maj. Genl. U.S.A. Asst. Commr.
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