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I was at the Public Sale held at "Shandy Hall" Richmond County Virginia on the 12th day of December 1866 and saw the following portion of the fight between the whites & the blacks that occurred on that day.
 
I was sitting in the parlor of the farm residence called "Shandy Hall" when some person came into the room and said that there was a row in the near lawn attached to the said residence, between the whites & the blacks. I went out to see what there was going on. The first thing I saw upon the lawn was the Deputy Sheriff of Richmond County Mr. Oldham, hold of a colored man named William Veney, whom I supposed he had arrested. There was a large number of colored people around about the Sheriff and Veney, and I heard these colored people exclaim "that is not fair; -- you must let him go!" Veney seemed very much in a rage, and did break loose from the Sheriff. I saw just beyond the Sheriff a white man named Lewen Stewart, also another White man named Hamilton Dudley. -- this Dudley went up to said Stewart and said to him with his hands extended upwards, in one of which he Dudley held an open knife, "Stewart, I have stabbed the son-of-a-bitch that struck you!" Dudley had his coat off. Dudley then dissapeared, (over)

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