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Sub Dist Nansecomd and Isle of Wight Counties
Office Asst SUpt Bureau RF and AL
Suffolk Va July 30th 1866

Captain
   In compliance with  Paragraphs 5 and 6 Circular No 10 Current Series Bureau RF &c State of Virginia I have the honor to report
   Mannie Ballard a colored man living near Windsor in Isle of Wight County, complains that on the night of Sunday July 1st 1866 a man named Edwin Ely and three or four others broke into his house as he was retiring to  bed, fired at him wounding him severely also  wounding his child; the assailants then took Ballards wife and gave her a severe whipping. Ballard applied to Justice Ashman of Windsor for redress, but dare not name Ely unless the magistrate would promise him protection, for fear of assassination. This the magistrate declined, and no action was taken. My Court has no jurisdiction in Isle of Wight County.