Message of the President of the United States
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Excerpt from Message of the President of the United States: Communicating, in Compliance With the Resolution of the Senate of the 16 of December, 1870, Information in Relation to Outrages Committed by Disloyal Persons in North Carolina, and Other Southern States January 5, 1867, says the necessity of the military service in that department requires a mounted force to be at his disposal immediately for the suppression of lawlessness and disorder. January 9, 10, and 12, 1867, forwards copies of communications from different officers and citizens, reporting lawlessness and outrages in the Department of the Arkansas; also, report of operations from time of assuming command, August 29, 1866. Report of Major General George H. Thomas, commanding military division of the Tennessee, with those of Generals Daniel Sickles, A. H. Terry, George Stoneman, and T. H. Ruger, in regard to outrages in the Southern States, committed by whites upon blacks, and vice versa, with action taken by the authorities, since the surrender of the rebel armies; forwarded March 1, 1866. General Stoneman, commanding Department of Tennessee, under date of February 5, 1866, transmits reports of subordinate commanders, in regard to outrages occurring within his command. January 26, 1866, Brevet Major General John C. Smith, commanding district of West Tennessee, transmits report of lieutenant T. H. Ward, provost marshal of freedmen, of outrages committed by whites against the freedmen, and the reverse, and states that many outrages, principally thefts, are alleged to have been committed by colored soldiers, but as such cases were not immediately reported, the parties implicated could not be identified. The report of Lieutenant Ward shows fifty-two cases of misdemeanor, including one shooting affray and one assault with knife. January 20, 1866, General Alvan C. Gillem, commanding district of East Tennessee, encloses the affidavits of two freedmen, setting forth: 1. That while Robert Johnson, a discharged soldier from Company E. One hundred and twenty-fourth regiment colored infantry, was stopping, on his way to Richmond, Virginia, at a house in Gallowstown, a pistol was taken from him by the police with a promise that it would be returned to him the next morning. On going to the party who held the pistol in possession, he was abused and shot at several times, and the pistol, for which he paid eighteen dollars, denied him. 2. Spencer Swathe, a soldier of Company M, First United States Colored Infantry, while on his way to join his regiment, from sick leave, stopped at a, house of Mr. Bridges where his wife was living, to leave some money with her. While there he was assaulted by two men, Bill McFarlan and Breslau Swathe, the former striking him with an axe on the head, and robbed of $50, a pistol, a rifle, his overcoat and boots. The same parties also took six dollars from his wife. Another paper, inclosed by General Gillem, exhibits the report of Colonel W. B. Gaw, Sixteenth United States Colored Infantry, dated Chattanooga, January 1, 1866, in which he states that on September 5, one Bartlett Vinson, a citizen of Chattanooga, murdered a soldier of the First United States Colored Heavy Artillery, and gave in excuse as the provocation for the deed that some negro had stolen goods from him a night or two before. As another instance of unprovoked hostility against the colored people, he relates that two citizens of Broomtown Valley set the school-house for colored children on fire to prevent their being taught there. Several colored persons have been murdered in the vicinity of the post, but it is not known by whom, whites or blacks. A most revolting case transpired on the night of December 29, 1865, wherein negroes were the guilty parties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho
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