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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]
June 7, 1865

Statement of Wm Ferguson
Proprietor of the "Shaving Emporium" Exchange Hotel 

On the 7th inst I saw a drunken white man assault a colored boy, for some time the boy made no resistance, but finally seized and threw the white man. A gentlemen and myself separated them and while the boy was hunting his hat, a second attack was made upon him, and they were again separated, and the colored boy retired, but soon after he was arrested and strung up by his arms in front of the Exchange Hotel. I saw him thus suspended, and made his case known to two northern ladies, one of whom went with me to the office of the Provost Marshal, where I stated the facts of the case and the boy was released, together with another man who was being punished in a similar manner.