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Drummondtown Virginia
July 27th 1866

Bvt Maj.. G.H. French
Asst: Supt: &c

Dear Sir

According to your request, that I should report: if any more disturbances occurred at this place, I have the honor to inform you that the day after you left here, this same party called, "Simon Brown's Company", commenced plundering the colored people in the vicinity of Modest Town. Three men came here on Wednesday to inform you of it. They say it is the same company of men who have been at work on the Bayside, and judging from their Statements. they have commenced in that section of this country, with the determination to keep up the reputation they had gained in the vicinity of Hoodstock.

These three men were robbed of their arms. and they report that some fifty families have recieved a visit, and that they do not confine themselves to taking arms, but take money whenever they can find it, and even took hair brushes and combs from some of them. Instead of committing their depredations after dark as on the Bayside, they take the daylight, and without any disguise
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