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Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, Office 3d Division, Sub-District of Savannah, (Johnson and Emanuel Counties,) No. 11 C.R.R., January 1 1868 Major Gen'l O.O. Howard Commissioner Washington D.C. General:- In obedience to instructions, I have the honor to transmit herewith my monthly personal report. Was assigned to duty at this place by order of Major J.R. Lewis A.A.C. dated Atlanta Ga Oct 1, 1867. My duties, as Agent, during the past month have been arduous, and, in some instances unpleasant. Three cases of murder and attempted murder of freedmen have occurred in counties under my jurisdiction. On Monday 21, Dec. a freedman, named James Bell, alleged to have committed rape, was siezed by a mob of the citizens of Jefferson Co. and burned alive, at the stake, while burning he was tortured in the most brutal manner; he was stabbed three times in the jaws with a butcher's knife, and was ripped open so that his entrals protruded; and yet, while begging the villains to kill him, he was answered by taunts and jeers and physical torture of the most barbarous nature. The mob