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the same. But all this was done under color of law.
Case No. 3!- Two colored men named Pierce and Carter, called at an Eating house at the Depot at Hanover C. House and procured something to eat, whilst there two men named Davis and Benson commenced a tirade of abuse towards these Colored men who happened to have on the U.S. uniform of a private soldier, they having served in the Union Army and had received honorable Discharge from the same; these Colored men after getting what they wished, left the house without venturing a word in reply to the ex-rebel soldiers who were abusing them and thus violated their paroles given at Appomattox C. House. After getting a few rods away Carter - one of the Colored men who had paid for the food purchased - went back for his change which he had forgotten. The rebels again commenced to abuse him, and followed him out of the house-; the Colored men started towards the Court House, when they were followed by these rebels, and one of them Benson