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War Department
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands,
Washington, , 186 .

hard man) - he tied up by the thumbs until one of them fainted three times, the other once. They confessed that they did know something about the money and gave him information by which he procured a few thousand dollars. A large part of this stolen money was in the hands of the negroes.

I directed Genl Wild to turn this money over to the military authorities: also about $1500 worth of jewelry that he found. This jewelry was some that Rebel Secy. of War Breckinridge left in a house at Washington. It was delivered to Genl W. by the persons with whom it was left for safe keeping. It was some of the jewelry donated by the rebel women to the