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[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

he said he did not care for that, and contemptuously spurned it.  I then wrote a note to the Provost Marshal, asking him why I was detained in the street?  and sent it to his office he sent for me - I told him my story, and showed him my passport. He said it was not sufficient, and gave me another.  My friend Hawley, also showed his Passport to the Guard, without effect, and while he was standing in the street, the officer of the day told him that "he had given insolence to the Guard, which Hawley denied, whereupon the officer dismounted and beat him with his fist. 

I was in evidence before the Committee that irresponsible persons stopped negros in the street and entered their houses, demanding passports, and that citizens aided the police & military in stopping & running down colored men.