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Nashville Tennessee
July 18" 1868

I certify that the following is a correct Statement of the outragious conduct as perpetrated upon the colored Loyalists of Giles County.

While at Cornersville and engaged in teaching school I was visited by a gang of men in disguise who claim to be KuKlux. They searched my valise, which contained miscell. arrived epistles of which they possessed themselves. They then departed leaving Orders to myself and other inmates of the Boarding House to not vote for Brownlow again or any other radical aspirant for Office. 

Soon after they returned and ascented to the top of the School House, which is located near the Boarding House, and precipitated therefrom the steeple and church bell. Shortly before the attack upon the School House they halted on the Highway one Charles McClure, (colored) and compelled him to take an oath, that he would not aid or support 

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A true copy
James Thompson
Brv't. Lieut. Col. U.S.A. 
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Transcription Notes:
"Cornersville" is a best guess based on a list of towns in Tennessee