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The soldiers all went off up the street. Col Jordan myself and the Ord. Serg was standing close together and Col. Booker remarked that the soldiers ought to be thrashed. Several others said the same. These persons referred to all the soldiers of the command, that the niggers should pitch into them and clean them out - I then told the Serg that he ought to get a patrol and he started off. In a few minutes he returned with the patrol. It was not more than twenty minutes, perhaps not that long.

When the five soldiers were going to towards camp a crowd of about 20 negroes followed them up and Col Jordan ran on and overtook them and stopped them, preventing them from following the soldiers up

On Tuesday the 10th about 8 AM I saw five or six soldiers among them one or two who were in the bar room fight come down Main St towards the P.O. They all had sticks. They went to Bruce's Bar room where they were refused drink. Two or three of them went across to Perkins bar room but I think as they came immediately out they got nothing there.

Abt 10 oclock the same soldiers were before Buck Fuque's door and one of them named Parker I saw point at Fuque with his stick. Dick Burton was near there and some whites and blacks looking on, expecting some trouble. I didnt think the soldiers were intoxicated, but they had been drinking

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