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Bureau R.F. and A.L
Office Asst Supt. York Co. Va
Yorktown, Va. May 24th 1866.

General:

I have the honor to present for your consideration, a case which will well illustrate the "justice" which the Freedmen can expect to receive from the hands of the civil authorities, and which will be proof, that the bitter animosity which is so frequently reported as existing between the whites and blacks, does actually exist. On Monday last being informed that a disturbance of some character had occured at the "Court House" while the County Court was in Session, I went there, and found a freedman by the name of Robert Lewis was on the prisoners bench, charged with "Assault and battery", and "Contempt of Court", inquiring into the circumstances of the case both from blacks and whites learned that Lewis had been standing leaning against the Court House near the window listening quietly to the proceedings of the "Court" when a white man by