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Bureau Refugees Freedmen and A. Lands
Office 4th Div. 9th Sub. Dist. Va. 
Staunton Va. Dec. 11th/1867

Brig Gen'l O. Brown 
Asst. Comr. Dist. of Va. 
Richmond
General, 
In compliance with your order Dec. 4th 1867 to report what action was taken in the "four cases of attack with pistols" alluded to in November report under Cir. 6th I have the honor to transmit copies of letter addressed by me to James Bumgardner Comm Atty. in reference to cases of Baker Jackson and Wallace, to William Chapman J.P. in reference to case of Levi Middlebrook and to John M. Huff in reference to case of Mary Minor. On receipt of instructions from Capt. John A. McDonnell Sub. Asst. Comr. to refer cases of Wallace &c to county magistrates. I proceeded to Mt. Torrey Furnace, some 25 miles from this place, but found Wallace from home. I have however directed his wife to apply to Justice Chapman for a warrant against Ford and Sarah A. Epps to Justice Horner for a warrant agaist Robert Loving Hugh Jackson I could not find.
To this time I have received in instruction that warrants have been issued in any of cases or seen the com-