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Bedford and Botetourt Counties.

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Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands,
Head-Quarters Fourth Division, Seventh Sub-District of Virginia.
Liberty, Bedford Co., Va., Nov. 30th 1868.

Colonel F.M. Cooley. U.S.A
Mil Comr. Lynchburg Va

Colonel

I have the honor to report the following outrage perpetrated by the Grand Jury of Bedford Co Court at its Nov term is not presenting James Snead white for the murder of Jacob Cash, col'd, on board a Canal Boat near Holcombs Rock in this co. It appears that on the 1st of this month Minverva Nicholas, Henry Payne and Peter Gardner, all colored and James Snead (passenger) were on the boat. Peter Gardner was steering the boat and asked Jacob Cash to put out the slack line and he refused to do it. Gardner then asked Snead to steer for him and he went forward and put out the line while he was doing it Cash struck him twice with a boat pole and then grabed him by the color and struck him twice in the breast with his fist Gardner told him to stop or he would cut him with his knife. Minerva Nicholas then took Cash and lead him back to the stern of the boat when Mr. Snead said to him "give me the pole and hush your damd fuss on this boat and if you dont hush I will make you." Cash said the boat didnt belong to him; that he was only on there as a passenger that he wasnt afraid of him or any other damd

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