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HEADQUARTERS, ASSITANT COMMISSIONER, Bureau Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands, DISTRICT OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston, S.C. May 2nd 1868. Bvt Maj H. Neide U.S.A. Act Ass't Adj't Gen'l Major: I have the honor to make the following report of investigation of the charge of perjury preffersed[[?]] by W.J. Wilcox against Dr Henry T[[?]] Heriot, Acting Ass't Surgeon U.S.A. (in the employ of this Bureau) lately appointed, Collectors Customs Post of Georgetown So. Car. A.P. Gray (at present Dispatch clerk, So Car R.R. at Charleston) states that he was Secretary of the company commanded (from the commencement of the rebellion until after the 22nd of October 1862) by Captain Wm L. Trenholm[[?]] of the Confederate Army which was an independent company known as "The Rutledge Mounted Riflemen" afterwards as the Rutledg Mounted Riflemen and Horse Artillery" and that Dr Henry T.[[?]] Heriot volunteered as a private in said company in Feby or March 1862, before the first conscription in So Carolina, and that Heriot was present at the (or near the) first skirmish at Pocotaligo SC in the month of May 1862. Mr Gray states
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