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| No of case | On whom committed | White or colored | By whom committed | White or colored | Where | When | By whom reported | Character of outrage and action in the case. | 
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|   |   |   |   |   |   |   |   | have been thoroughly examined when before referred. | 
| 48 | Freedpeople | colored | Men | White | Southampton Co Va | July 1868 |  Mortimer Moulden A.S.A.C. | Report under Cir: 6, for month ending 31st July 1868. Reports that a band of men, some of the richest in the County, a few days ago, went out with guns & pistols, & without any authority of law entered the houses of some twenty or more freedmen, pretending to be seaching for "stolen property." They treated the freedmen in a rude & vile manner, "punching" them with their guns, threatening "to blow their brains out," or to take them to "the woods and give them 100 lashes." Thinks this a plan to intimidate, and frighten the freedmen from going to the polls. Filed- |  
| 49 | Coles, Scott | Colored | Terry Bobbett & Son | White | Pittsylvania C.H. Va | July 20th 1868 | Wm Leahey A.S.A.C. | L.160. R.F&A.L, Va. dated July 20th 1868. Reports disturbance at Pittsylvania C.H, Va. in which Bobbett commenced a quarrel with Coles, and finally struck him with a stick - as Coles stooped to pick up a rock a son of Bobbetts, named Wm C, jumped on him and cut Cole several times with a knife in the back & shoulders. The two Bobbetts were bound over in the sum of $100, and Coles and Albert Wilson (colored) were bound |

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