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Provost Marshals Office
Augusta Ga. July 20 1865.

Statement by T.P. Macgarie in relation to the matter of arrest and trial of himself and others before the star chamber court of J.E. Bryant Sub Com Freedman.

On or about the 20th day of June 1865 I was sitting with George Kernaghan Chas Cooper and others in front of Store No 260 Broad Street, when a small negro boy came running past waving a handkerchief two small sized lan-terriers belonging to the two latter named gentlemen & a small poodle dog of my own, seeing the boy thus running immediately gave chase when the boy commenced to wave them off with his kerchief, two other dogs seized the boy, one by the leg and the other by the arm. Mr. Cooper immediately proceeded to call off the dogs and release the boy. The party soon after broke up. I went home when shortly after Capt Bryant sent a guard to arrest me with instructions to break door open if I refused to deliver myself up.  gave myself up to the guard and was carried before Capt Bryant and Genl Wilde found on my arrival that Mr Cooper had also been arrested and brought before the above named parties. The charge brought against me by some negro boys were there present, was, that when the dogs barked at the boy I set up a laugh they immediately to try the case, as if before a regularly organised tribunal and