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On the evening of 23d of September 1867 while in my office discharging my duty, a man an (Irishman) by the name of J.C. Miller came in very abruptly, and said to me "Dr. Hunsaker I understand that you want to burst up our quarantine, and I tell you that you can't, nor shall not do it - without you first walk over my dead body sir" -  "I will not allow any god damned bureau agent to come here and trample upon my rights or those of the citizens until he walks over my dead body, Sir,"  I said to Mr. Miller that "I had not said or attempted any such thing" "On the contrary if your quarantine is the means of saving any ones life I thought it to be a good thing - Mr. Miller again said to me "that he would be god damned if I or any other damn Bureau should run over him"  "That if I should attempt to do such a thing, which he believed I had done that It should be done over his dead body"  I then said to him that he had my answer and that I did not like to be insulted in any such a manner in my office.  After using some more intolerable oaths, in a bragadicio manner he quit my office - I had no protection - no soldiers, so I had to bear this gross insult in the office - - - -

The next evening, 24th September 1867 I became somewhat alarmed for my safety as bureau agent, believing that a certain click of rebels intended to rout me out of Crockett or do violence to me - .  Knowing that I was