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evidence was very strong indeed. Their testimony has been received in good faith, and in one instance, a White man who served in the Confederate Army was sent to the Peniteniary [Penitentiary] for five years on the evidence of a Colored girl, for Burglary. How they will be treated in Civil suites, I cannot tell as yet, for there have been no Civil suits brought before the Courts, from the character of a majority of the Magistrates in this County, I believe they will deal fairly with the Freedmen. I am very respectfully Your obedient Servant J. M. Barnes Capt V.R.C. Asst Supt B.R.F. & AL.
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