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escape the self-constituted raiding party of intoxicated soldiers.

The conduct of the Patrol, after arresting the soldiers who had been engaged in the fight, was by no means good. At least one of its number, was one of those who had been previously rioting, and two of its members brutally maltreated a colored man who had (it seems mistakenly) been arrested.

The patrol, also, is to blame for permitting an attack upon two peaceable employees of the Freedmen's Hospital, while passing the gates of that institution. The evidence shows, that the prisoners guarded by the patrol, at that time, succeeded in making a charge upon those employees, and, the patrol, itself, in more than one instance, seemed to be in active sympathy against the freedmen.

The actual extent of the disturbance was confined to the numbers previously spoken of, and, but a few minutes of active fighting, on each of the occasions above referred to. Five soldiers, only, were hurt, and but one, severely, Private Parker, who was shot through the jaw by a pistol ball. He was doing well, and walking about, when I left. These soldiers received their injuries on Tuesday morning, the

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