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War Department
Bureau Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands
Hd. Qrs. Asst. Comr. for D.C.
Washington Sept 18th 1865

Colonel John Eaton Jr.
Asst. Comr. Bureau R F + A L 
Washington DC

Colonel:   In accordance with your instructions I have the honor to report the following statement of facts developed by personal examination, concerning the beating of Sidney Carter, a colored woman, living at Bladensburg, Md., by one John S Suit, a citizen of the same place.  On the morning of August 19th 1865, a quarrel was begun, about some trifling matter by Mrs Hardesty, a daughter of Suit, with Sidney Carter, the circumstances of which are fully detailed in the statement of Mrs Soper, which is enclosed.  
   It appears from this, that the colored woman, upon Mrs Hardesty threatening to call her husband of father, declared that she did not care for either
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