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37883
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Tennessee Assistant Commissioner, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 2 and 3, A–C, 1867, Part 2
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Freedmen's Bureau
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Bureau R.F. & A. L.
Sub - Dist of Memphis.
Memphis Tenn May 4th 1867
Respectfully returned, the following report of the within outrage has been already received from our Agent Jesse A. Brown Esq.: He states that the colored people by permission of Mess. Loving & Porter who resides about one & a half miles from Paris Tenn, gave a dancing party on their premises. Everything went on quietly until around ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, when a gang of railroad hands about eleven in number, came up to the dance - after they had been there a short time, one of these men snatched a match from a colored man and threatened to raise a row if anything was said about it.
The colored people sent to Dr. Porter for protection but before his arrival the roughs blew the lights out and as Mr. Brown expresses it, seized the women and "did as they wished with them", and when they left they took with them to the woods a girl 11 or 12 years old who was there ravished by three of these brutes. In the morning, she was turned loose - she is now lying very low in consequence of the treatment she then received. The citizens turned out and before night had the scoundrels in jail. On Monday they were examined. Mr. Brown requested the States Attorney to conduct the prosecution, who was also assisted by two other lawyers who voluntered their services for the colored people. They were all put under bonds for trial at the next turn of the Circuit Court. While one of the party was hunting for bail he managed to get away from the constable and escaped but was afterwards arrested in Paducah Ky and is now in jail. Mr. Brown states that the civil authorities acted not only promptly but most cheerfully in bringing these parties to justice.
Fred. S. Palmer
Lt. Col. & Sub - Asst. Com'r.
E.B. 219 - (1 Encl.)
[[stamp]] Bureau R.F. & A.L. Nashville. Rec'd May 9 1867 [[/stamp]]
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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869 / Series 8: Registered Letters Received / 8.3: Entered in Register 2 and 3
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1867
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NMAAHC.FB.M999, File 8.3.1
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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee, Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865–1869, Registered Letters Received, Entered in Register 2 and 3, A – C
Bureau R.F. & A. L.
Sub - Dist of Memphis.
Memphis Tenn May 4th 1867
Respectfully returned, the following report of the within outrage has been already received from our Agent Jesse A. Brown Esq.: He states that the colored people by permission of Mess. Loving & Porter who resides about one & a half miles from Paris Tenn, gave a dancing party on their premises. Everything went on quietly until around ten or eleven o'clock in the evening, when a gang of railroad hands about eleven in number, came up to the dance - after they had been there a short time, one of these men snatched a match from a colored man and threatened to raise a row if anything was said about it.
The colored people sent to Dr. Porter for protection but before his arrival the roughs blew the lights out and as Mr. Brown expresses it, seized the women and "did as they wished with them", and when they left they took with them to the woods a girl 11 or 12 years old who was there ravished by three of these brutes. In the morning, she was turned loose - she is now lying very low in consequence of the treatment she then received. The citizens turned out and before night had the scoundrels in jail. On Monday they were examined. Mr. Brown requested the States Attorney to conduct the prosecution, who was also assisted by two other lawyers who voluntered their services for the colored people. They were all put under bonds for trial at the next turn of the Circuit Court. While one of the party was hunting for bail he managed to get away from the constable and escaped but was afterwards arrested in Paducah Ky and is now in jail. Mr. Brown states that the civil authorities acted not only promptly but most cheerfully in bringing these parties to justice.
Fred. S. Palmer
Lt. Col. & Sub - Asst. Com'r.
E.B. 219 - (1 Encl.)
[[stamp]] Bureau R.F. & A.L. Nashville. Rec'd May 9 1867 [[/stamp]]
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