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Provost Marshal’s office
Greensboro Greene Co Ga
Oct 5th 1865.

Davis Tillson Brig Gen. 
Augusta Ga. 

Sir

I have the honor to inform you that immediately after your departure from Washington Wilkes Co on Monday last, I started with twenty (20) enlisted men for Elbert County Some thirty miles distant where we arrived next morning at half past three o’clock and surrounded the house in which we were led to believe the dangerous demagogue and traitor Robert Loombs was Concealed. 

After maintaining a strict guard on the premises for nearly three hours the proprietor was notified of our presence and the object of our visit- when He very willingly but that in a defiant spirit Invited us to search his house and denied emphatically that Mr. Loombs was on his house A fact