Viewing page 169 of 243

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

Cunningham in Eliz. City Co
On Christmas day, a colored man was brutally assualted by several white man. while crossing Hampton Bridge. 
Today, the man Causey, before mentioned attempted to stop a colored man from carrying his own property to a place rented by him using profane threatening language
There have been many cases of persons arrested and confined in the guard houses of Hampton and Camp Hamilton which have been disposed of by the Pro Marshall without trial and have not been reported to me, nor brought before the Freedmans Court, From circumstances which have come to my my knowledge lately, I'm convinced that their disposition has not always been justly made and I would respectfully represent that it is an inference with the rights of the Bureau and the Freedmans Court, which was established for the adjudication of such difficulties, and request that an order be issued making it obligatory on Pro. Marshals to bring these cases before the court and have them lawfully and justly disposed of
I have not be able to communicate with my assistants to procure other facts and circumstances which may be in their possession