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herewith transmitted, I have compiled the facts in the more extreme cases of cruelty and outrage for reference and make the same a part and portion of this my report.

On [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] examination of this sworn evidence, or the abstracts made therefrom, will reveal to you, sixty cases of outrage, in a limited district and period, unparalleled in their atrocity and fiendishness, - cruelties, for which, in no instance - as developed by the testimony - is there the least shadow of excuse or palliation.

You will observe, I have been able in most instances, to give you the names of the injured, in many, the names of the offenders, & with dates and localities.

I have classified these outrages as follows:
Twenty-three cases of most severe and inhuman, beating and whipping, of men.
Four, of beating and shooting. Two, of robbing and shooting. Three, of robbing. Five men, shot and killed. Two shot and wounded. Four, beaten to death. One, beaten and roasted.

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