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resulted in a bloody riot.

In the month of September, by the order of J. S. Moody, the house of a Mrs. Smith (colored) in Hampton was torn down in her absence, and a part of the material worked into a building, which he was erecting on the same lot of land. Mr. Moody has not yet made restitution to Mrs Smith.

In the same month the soldiers stationed at Newport News, committed depredation on the gardens, and cultivated fields of the colored people in that vicinity, and destroyed much property.

In October, while the 3rd Pa. Arty. were in camp at the Hospital, waiting to be mustered out of the service, many unprovoked assaults were made upon the colored people in Hampton and Slabtown and Camp Hamilton. Houses were broken into, brutal assaults were committed on colored citizens - men women, and even the school children while passing along the streets. In the same month, in Gloucester Co. a man named Schuyler Bland severely whipped a colored boy and drove him from his farm threatening to shoot him if he ever returned, and shortly after fired a gun at two other colored men in the same month. In Eliz. City Co a man named Causey. made a brutal assault on a colored woman named Rosa Parker in the streets

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