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by fear of worse treatment if they made any attempt to bring the offenders to justice or by ignorance of any redress within their reach from making complaint, no such cases have appeared before our Bureau Courts. Among the cases of which I have heard casually mentioned I will mention the following at New Port News during last July. five (5) colored men were shot while at work in their fields, and although strict and diligent investigation was made under the direction of Maj Gen Miles no clue to the guilty parties could be obtained. The suspicion rested upon returned rebels who felt sorely their defeat and disliked to have their lands occupied by their former slaves. A colored man was shot at Eastville Va during November by a white man whose name is not known to me. He is now in confinement at Ft Monroe for the offence and awaits his trial by Military Commission the case being too important for trial by Bureau Court.
From the very few cases which