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Bureau of R.F. & A.L.
Hd. Qts. Asst. Supt. Sub=Dist. No. 3.
7th District Va.

Rocky Mount. Franklin Co., Va.
March 5th 1867.

Bvt. Brig. Genl. O. Brown.
A.A.A. Genl. B.R.F. & A.L.
Dept. of the Potomac.

General:

In my Report of the 28th February, Ult., pursuant to Circular No. 10. Series 1866, Hd. Qts. Asst. Com. St of. Va., as well as in a special Report appended thereto, I made mention that a freedman named "James Preston," of Franklin Co., who had on the 16th Feb. been shot at and wounded in the side, in Roanoke Co., by "John Hudson", white, also of this Co., while being pursued by him on a suspicion that he had on the night of the 15th Feb. stolen out of his, the said John Hudson's stable, a horse belonging to his brother, "James Hudson," was, at the time of my making the said Report, in jail, awaiting trial, at this place. It may be remembered, the freedman when overtaken had not the horse in his possession, but that on being approached suddenly by Hudson, who with pistol presented at, accosted him as follows - "Jim you belong to me", or in words to that effect, on his attempting to make his escape, having been immediately shot down, he was finally induced to acknowledge that he had taken it; not however with the intent to steal it, but simply for the purpose of performing the journey he was going on, from Franklin, to where his relatives lived in Roanoke Co; and the animal was subsequently found in the possession

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