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The freedmen knowing I was powerless and it being worth the life of the person reporting few complaints were made. The murders were reported to have been committed by Baker, Bickerstoff, Emmit; English, Griffith, End, and the Bolan Brother. Clarksville is today in the hands of these men, civil law is a farce the citizens are terrified, and permit violence to go unpunished, the worst men in Clarksville claim respectability yet they never commit themselves sufficiently to warrant their arrest - they aid and assist outlaws and encourage lawlessness, several of them have been mentioned in previous reports. The head Centre is Wright-Stanley assisted by Wm Dickman and son William, Joe Hart, Wm Gordon Moses Whitsett Thos. Lenox, John Henderson and Captain Anderson the Guerilla Chief. I would prefer some other post as the Griffith gang have sworn to have my life, and all the precautions I could use would not save
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