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Dick Van, West side Chattahoochee near Bushy's Head Shoals.
Wm Eckles West side Chattahoochee near Bushy's Head Shoals.
Irvin Reese East Side Chattahoochee near Bushy's Head Shoals.
Isaac Stephens East Side Chattahoochee near Bushy's Head Shoals.
Jeff Stephens East Side Chattahoochee 6 miles down Bushy's Head Shoals.
Wm Archer (desperate character and connected to the murder of James Daniels (Freedman) lives above Bushy's Head Shoals
John Powells, has a place at Newnan. and above Bushy Head Shoals 
Nate Palmer, near Elem Church, Coweta Co. Ga.
Wm Gaines, near Elem Church Coweta Co. Ga.-

This information I could not obtain while I was in these counties, as the negroes were so completely cowed, that they dare not express themselves to me, nor be seen having any conversation with me. I am informed by Major Leonard, that at different times since he has had charge of the office of U.S.A. Comr at Atlanta, he has reported some 16. or 17. murders, committed in Heard Co. and that a list of the 
outlaws concerned, was forwarded to your office, Sept 4th, 1866. with a statement of the facts connected with these outrages, and that since then a part of them have been arrested by the troops that were sent to Heard Co. and have been held to bail by the Civil Authorities, but