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Your obt servt
J. A. Yeckley 
Lt and Asst Supt
Bureau of R.F. and AL 

[[stamp]] RECEIVED OFFICE SUPT. 2 DIST. SEP 26 1866 [[/stamp]]

Y. 5 1866

City Point Va
Sept 24. 1866
S. 216. R.F.&A.L. Va Vol 2 1866

Yeckley J. Arnold
Lt & Asst Supt

Reports an unprovoked assault upon Willis Wood col'd by two soldiers of 12th U.S. Inf. He being the only Officer at the Post, undertook to arrest one of the men, but the Corp'l of the guard refused to recognize his authority having no information that he was an officer; the soldiers were drunk at the time and cursed him; the one arrested has since been released

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