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been quietly at work in the yard pursued and killed.

The policemen in this case must have been drunk for he shot at least 4 times at this man within five steps of him without bringing him down. He finally got near enough to knock him down with his pistol.

Soon after, seeing the colored soldiers coming out of the Fort I rode to the little eminence in rear of the Miss & Tenn R.R. Depot and while urging the men to return to their quarters, a ball passed in close proximity to my head. I know if it had not been for the police there would have been no row on the 2d May - and but for the brutality of the Irish police towards the blacks as mentioned by myself for the past 12 months in the City of Memphis, there would have been no difficulty at all.

(signed) S. S. Garrett.

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 14" day of May 1866.
(sgd) Michl Walsh
Capt & AAAG
& Pro Mar Freedmen

A true Copy
F M H Kendrick
Capt & A.I.G.

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