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Personally appeared before me the undersigned, S. J. Quinby. MD. and being duly sworn deposes & says.

My name is S. J. Quinby, am a physician I live on South Street near Main in the City of Memphis. On the 1st day of May 1866 I was standing in my store door, about 4 PM; there was in the street in front of a grocery, near my place of business some one hundred discharged soldiers (Cold), forty of whom appeared to be drunk, two or three of them were very noisy. At this time a posse of six policemen passed by from the direction of Causey St, two of them went into the crowd of discharged soldiers and arrested two of them at which time the other colored soldiers began to gather round and cry, Kill them, stone them - the two policemen showed no arms or used any violence. They started back towards Causey St with their prisoners, the rest of the policemen remaining behind to keep the crowd back, when they reached the Bayou bridge the soldiers began to discharge their revolvers in the air, about forty of them seemed to be armed with pistols, most of the others with clubs, stones &c. When they

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