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Head Quarters Freedman's Bureau
Rogersville Hawkins County Tennessee
March the tenth 1866

General Fisk: in regard to a judgement which I rendered on the 8th day of January 1866 I will give the facts as the appeared on trial from reliable evidence from which you will clearly see that the Petition of Wilson N. Davis is a series of falsehoods. There was no proof that William S. Chambers had traded Isaac Chambers (Freedman) the horse in dispute for a horse branded U.S. The witnesses testified that a federal soldier gave a broken down branded horse to Isaac Chambers (Freedman) which he kept and recruited a while and that another Federal soldier came along and took the horse. It was clearly shown on trial by reliable witnesses that some person passing the public way gave the horse claimed by Wilson N. Davis to Isaac Chambers (Freedman). It was proved by all the witnesses that there is no similarity between the horse which the Freedman holds and the horse formerly owned by Mr. Davis only that both were black. It was clearly proved by the witnesses testifying that the horse which Mr. Davis had really owned was a fleet pacing horse and it was proved and shown on trial that the horse which the Freedman holds makes no motions toward pacing. 
In fact it was positively  proved by Mr. Davis' neighbors that the horse held by Isaac Chambers is not the horse formerly owned by Mr. Davis