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October the 6th 1867 Carline County Va

Dear sir the Bush Fire say that the men came to his house an order a bil sir the deed not the men that Was there give the union club another Tribe Would not let them come to the meeting the say he say if the came to the meeting he would put there thing in the road and the men ask the Club men to come after them an the went an, a man name John Chew he was a soldier of the first Regiment of the united states Colord troops first Corpral a Woman that made living there ask him to move her an he went ther to shove her an me Trice Come to the Thrus an struck him Twice with a  [[?]] an he got out [[?]] an he send him word that if he did not go to the law he would Pay for it and when he went [[?]] he ask him for the money an he had [[?]] An put in jail if  he had Not told me that he would approve it I would never ask him for it

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