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open, a Colored Doctor who happened to be in the jail sewed up the wound, I saw him sewing it up.  There is another reason why I was whipped and beat so often.  I was always on the look out to see and hear every thing that was going on and in doing so I used slyly to follow Mr. Brooks and Mr. Hall and whenever detected by them, always was punished as before stated.

Sworn to before me
this 23d day of November 1866

James A. Bates
Capt. 43d Infty and Supt.