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Bureau Refugees F & A Lands
Hd Qrs 2nd Div. 8th Sub. Dist. of Va.
Abingdon Va May 10: 1868

Wm. P. Austin
Sub. Asst. Comr.
Wytheville Va

Sir

I have the honor to make the following special report of a case which occurred within the bounds of my Sub Division recently.

On the night of the 5th Instant fourteen or fifteen of the Students of Emory & Henry College dressed in the peculiar costume of the Ku-Klux went to the house of a Freedman named John Foster & knocked at his door.  Foster called out who is there when they answered come out He then went to the door & asked them what they wanted They replied we have come after you & are going to take you away with us.  Foster told them that he could not go with them & requested them to go away & leave him alone.  At this some one in the company