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there were 3 of the loud young men of the City (thinking that the soldiers had gone) went and blacked themselves up and thought they would pay off these Negro Soldiers. so they went and stove in 3 of their Doors and demanded their Revolvers and only suceeded in getting one. While 2 of the Negroes they knocked down, for past offences, when the were Soldiers. Now Col. I don't hold to any such proceedings as this. and if I can prove who the Villins were, then I shall punish them. but you are aware how the colored man can magnify anything.
You know I must do all I can to keep in good terms with the Whites, as well as the colored folks, and am placed at the same time in a very pecular position, and think I have a good understanding between you and myself, in regard to my duties here as Agent of the Bureau.