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Office Sub Asst Commr
B. of R. F. & A. L. 
Richmond Texas 
October 19, 1866.

Bvt Lt Col H A Ellis 
Act Asst Adjt Genl 
B of R. F. & A. L. 

Colonel: 

I have the honor to report, that, on the 14th inst. - a Young man named Adam Neal committed an assault with intent to kill upon the person of a freedman named Ishmael by striking the said Freedman with a rail upon the head. 

That immediately upon being informed of the same I proceeded, mounted, with a guard to make the arrest — that the said Adam Neal escaped from this place and County although I searched for him during three days.

The freedman Ishmael 

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