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NARA 229

Dry Grove Miss.
Jan 1st 1868

Officers of Freemens Bureau
 
I have to report to you that on last night a party of blacks or whites I know not which broke into my store house, & took from thence the five bales of cotton, Tobacco, clothes &c They must have carried the cotton some distance as there was no wagon track near the house. I had a man hired to stay in the store. But on that night he was absent drunk only a few hundred yards from the place, As it was late in the morning when I found it out, thinking Mr. Morrison had stayed in the house as he was accustomed I could not track the wagon or team with much certainty but I think they went in the direction of Raymond. 

I was not able to go in search of them myself but I got others to go. I have just heard that a person said last week he would "come with a lot of the bags & take that cotton out some night" This is all I know of the case now as soon as I hear 

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