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Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands,
Head Quarters 2nd Sub-District, Virginia,
Petersburg, Va. June 15th 1867

Captain General Mallery
AAAG

Captain
I have the honor to inform you that for the month of February 1866 Stephan Lucus-colored was murdered in Sussex County and thrown into a manure pit A negro named Abram Wicks who called at the house of Lucas. and induced him to into the neighborhood where he was murdered, and then disappeared is believed to know something of the murder

His is now in the neighborhood of Waverly Station Lucus wife Jane wishes to go down and prosecute him, she is too poor to ride and too old to walk I respectfully ask transportation for her from Petersburg & return

Very resptly Yours
J R Stone
Bvt Maj Sub & Comr

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