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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters, Superintendent 2d District,
Petersburg, Va., Feb 7th 1866

Col. O. Brown
Asst. Comr &c 
Richmond Va

Colonel
I have the honor to deliver into your custody by the bearer hereof (4) four prisoners, forwarded for trial before Mil Commission 
charged with the following offences, viz.

James Dearing (white) Stealing Mules
Richard Green (cold) Stealing Mules
George Walker (cold) Burglary
Robert Roberts (cold) Murder

The proper charges and specifications
will be forwarded at once. Would add that
Dearing is a desperate character - his two 
accomplices in stealing the mules from me has, one been shot, the other drowned while
attempting to escape

I am Colonel
Very Respy
Your Obt Svt

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