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Bureau R F and A. L
Office Asst. Sub. Asst. Comr.
2nd Div 11th Sub Dist of Va.
Maysville Va. Oct 2nd 1868

Thomas P. Jackson Esq.
Sub Asst Comr 11th Sub Dist Va.
Farmville Va.

Sir
I have the honor to report that in the case of Harrison Flood (Freedman) convicted of murder in the 1st degree at the last session of the Circuit Court in this (Buckingham) County and sentenced to be hung Oct 23d 1868 that according to the statement of the prisoner to me, he implicates others who as he alledges induced him to commit the crime, he also states that his life was threatened by the murdered man as there had been a slight misunderstanding before between them, but that the parties (Ned neighbors and John Stone)

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