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my husband and them, and they were only prevented from firing, by my prevailing on Dr Bellamy to submit to the unlawful arrest. The order for this arrest demanded my husband or the children - and they acknowledge afterwards, that they then had the boy in their possession. indeed we found them there (for I also had the honor to accompany Dr Bellamy to his august presence) The little girl Dr B knew nothing of, and he told them so. (for I had told the children at noon, to go to Mosebach - if they desired or take refuge where they could).

And all this Sir was purely to gratify a malicious spleen of this man Mosebach on me, and because my husband called him personally to account for the indignities I had received, by his order, the day previous, for he believed you nor the Government would not sustain him in such proceedings. I thought the Government designed "The Freedmens" Bureau as a protection for Freedmen etc. and not as a bulwark behind which a cowardly officer might assail a woman to gratify a petty revenge, neither was I aware that Georgia was under military rule, so that the civil law cannot avail to protect a citizen. Believing that all Government Officials are not as this man, I appeal to you for redress, and more especially, as he gave you for his authority for these things. I cannot believe you will sanction such acts, when these armed men would force themselves into my house, and I alone. I called for the Police. Mosebach sneered at me, taunted me with their