Brownsville and Bell's Station and vicinity and investigate the same. Lieut. Miller states:
John Sherman, Sheriff of Haywood County, Tenn., states, that the following outrages have been committed on the Freedmen in the vicinity of Brownsville, Tenn. since the first of July 1868. On or about the 27th of August 1868, Andrew Macklin, (colored) living in the Brownsville District, was assaulted while traveling on the highway, by a party of men, afterwards forced into a grocery and compelled to drink at toast to Seymour and Blair; that a few nights after, he was again badly beaten and his wife outraged, and the Justice of the Peace was afraid to issue warrants for this arrest.
On or about the 1st of September 1868., Thos Grant and Benjamin Grant tied a colored man to a tree and whipped him severely with a stick; that the outrage was committed in daylight and in the City limits, and no action has been taken in the above case to bring the parties before the court.
On or about the 12th of September a party of freedmen were assaulted on their way home from Brownsville, and four of their members shot, one not expected to recover from his wounds; that on the same night a party of masked men committed outrages on freedmen and while throughout the County, but he does not know the names of any other or the particulars.
On or about the 10th of September 1868, Joseph Rooke (white came to the house of Irwin (cold) and shot
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