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Bureau Refugees F. & A. Lands
Hd Qrs 2nd Div 8th Sub Dist of Va

Abingdon Va June 23d, 1868

Bvt Capt Nill A Coutter
Asst Genl B.R.F.A.L.
Richmond Va

Catain
I have the honor to submit the following report in obedience to your communication of the 16" Inst directing me to "make an immediate & full investigation of the killing of Mr Milburn late member of the State Constitutional Convention"

After the most careful & diligent inquiry of persons who are living in the immediate neighborhood some of them indeed living on adjoining farms to the gentleman named above I am fully satisfied that the report of his having been Killed is wholly untrue  Your letter is dated Tuesday the 16" I saw a gentleman who saw and conversed with Mr Milburn in Jonesville on

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