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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen &c
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Commissioner
Baltimore, Md.   Sept 7, 1866

Charles Gibson, colored, aged 47: farmer - lives near Hanover Switch.  Says:  I was at the camp meeting near Hanover Switch, on the land of Mr. Enos Shipley, on last Thursday week; - was driven off the ground by the white people - and had destroyed by fire and otherwise one stove (cooking) 2 dozen breakfast plates and 2 dozen dinner plates - 2 feather beds, 1 bedstead, 3 dozen knives & forks, 3 dozen cups and saucers, 2 feather pillows, 2 pr. shoes, (womens) 4 quilts, 2 sheets an 1 trunk broken open and thirty dollars in money taken out of the trunk besides clothing.