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the riotous soldiers from the negroes and the fight was stopped. Most of the negroes ran away at the appearance of the patrol and of those who were fighting the evidence tended to show that [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] several were fighting only in their own defense and trying to escape the [[strikethrough]] intox [[/strikethrough]] 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 [[strikethrough]] whom the [[/strikethrough]] guarded by the patrol at that time succeeded in making a charge upon these employees, and [[strikethrough]] if the [[/strikethrough]] the patrol itself in more than one instance seemed to be in active sympathy against