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Forsyth Ga May 27th 1867

Genl J. R. Lewis

Dear Sir, I received yours of May 24 in which you spoke of the difficulty with Mr Simpson L. McLendon, and Mr Bostick and Harpe, I hasten to give you the particulars of the difficulty, as I have learned from the Overseer of the Rail-Road, Mr McLendon and Harpe were in the same company in the confederate service and I learn that from some cause that Harpe had threatened to whip said McLendon upon sight, and that the day that the difficulty took place was the first time that Harpe had seen McLendon since he made the threat.

McLendon complained to me as a justice of the peace, and I issued a warrant, against William Bostwick, and had him arrested and brought before me and it could not be proven that he struck McLendon, whereupon the Defendant was acquitted, at the prosicuters cost. McLendon then applied for a warrant against Harpe, I issued the warrant, put in the hands of an

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