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Bureau of R.F and A.L
Sub, District, No "8", 7th District Va
Rockbridge Bath and Alleghany Counties
Hd Qtrs Lexington Va October 11th 1866

Bt Brig'd Gen"l, O, Brown,
A.A.G.
               
General - 
On the 10th inst I telegraphed to Bt Brig'd Gen"l Horace Neide the information that a freedman had been shot on the evening of Sunday the 7th inst by a law student at this place named J.C. Johnson - it seems - from what I can learn that Johnson was in company with a colored woman, named Milly, a freedman who was nearby was accused by Johnson of watching him. The Freedman viz Patrick Thompson denied that he was watching Johnson - some words passed, Johnson went off and borrowed a pistol came back and called the negro a damned son of a bitch at the same time discharging the pistol he had borrowed at him - Johnson immediately turned and walked away, Thompson at first did not know that he was shot, but after Johnson disappeared in the darkness the freedman placed his hand upon his side and explained I am shot -

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