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In regard to the disturbance on the night of the 24th of September 1867 between myself as agent of the bureau and a portion of the citizens of Crockett, I assume that the evidence taken as a whole clearly shows

I  That while it is true that I had taken two glasses of whiskey on the day and night of the disturbance, yet I was not drunk, nor intoxicated to such an extent as to render me incapacitated for business; while the witness Thompson says that I was drunk, other witnesses who were with me all the time and well acquainted with me, emphatically declare that I was not drunk

II   Dr Hunsaker in the discharge of his duty proceeded to arrest one J.C. Miller who had insulted said officer (Dr Hunsaker) but a few hours before he was arrested, he the said Miller being drunk and no doubt sought an opportunity to give the insult, as the evidence shows that said Miller, Cursed the bureau, the Yankees, and United States soldiers on the very night of his arrest; and even threatened to take the life of said agent

I hold that after the arrest was made, it was the duty of Dr. Hunsaker, as an officer to keep Miller until the matter was  investigated; and I having no soldiers at my command, only a few picked up freedmen