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Office S.A.C. 28th Sub-District B.R.F. and A.L.
Sterling, Texas, June 29th, 1867.

Lieut. J.T. Kirkman
A.A. Adjt. General, 
Galveston, Texas.

Lieut:

On Sunday evening June 23d, 1867, a Freedman came to me with the complaint that a quarrel occurred, a few hours before between a white man named James Reagan and a Freedman named Fayette Clark, at Barton's Ferry, Robertson Co., Texas, some six miles from Sterling & that the white man shot the freedman through the bowels, and then leaping upon the complainants horse which was hitched near by, made his escape:  that the white man & the freedman were each in charge of an ox team loaded with cotton, and that the teams were left in the road without any teamsters; that the freedman that had been carried to the plantation of Mr. Barton & was well cared for. 

I immediately issued the following order:

"No. 47.  

Office S.A.C. 28th Sub-District, B.R.F. and A.L.
Sterling, Texas, June 23d, 1867.

Mr. Frank Barton, 
Robertson Co. Texas.

Sir:

You are hereby ordered to take possession of a cotton team which will be pointed out to you by Anthony Crawford, f.m. & hold the same until 10' o.clock A.M. June 24, 1867.  Also use whatever assistance you may need to arrest the murderer of the blackman shot today near your plantation.

Very respectfully
Your Obt  Servt
J.L. Randall
Sub-Asst Comr. B.R.F. & c"