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While I am aware that I have no right to threaten the life of any one or to use violence of any kind, yet sir when you remember that my life has been threatened time and again, and that I have sustained on more than one occasion personal violence and that no action whatever has been taken in the matter - I trust you will accord to me the same priveledge enjoyed by the ex rebels by whom I am surrounded,

They it seems can not only threaten to shoot, but actualy do shoot (I allude to the case of Bolin who shot a freed woman named Fordam) and no notice is taken of the matter - 

Hoping this matter will meet with prompt attention

I am General 
Your obdt Servant
G B Carse
Bt. Colonel, U.S. Vols. 

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