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Before me personally appeared the undersigned Lewis Bennett and being duly sworn deposed as follows My name is Lewis Bennett I live in the city of Memphis Tenn on the evening of the 2nd day of May 1866 as I was coming from the levee I met several white men. they asked me if I had been a soldier. I answered yes. one of them said he believed I was a "dam smoked yankee". he then struck me in the arm with a club and broke it (my arm) another struck me on the head with a club and knocked me down, and they beat me on the face unmercifully they robbed me of $50.00 in money and a watch worth $70.00 Lewis his X mark Bennett Subscribed and sworn to before me at Memphis Tenn this the 12th day of May 1866 (Signed) M Walsh Capt and AAAG & PM Freedmen A true copy F.M.H. Kendrick Capt and Asst Insp Genl