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Records of the Assistant Commissioner for the State of Tennessee
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1865 - 1869
National Archives Microfilm Publication M999, Roll 34
"Reports of Outrages, Riots and Murders, Jan. 15, 1866 - Aug. 12, 1868"
Report of Outrages Committed by Whites on Freedmen in the Memphis Sub District, Bureau R. F. A. L. For the month of May 1867, as reported to Lieut. Col. Fred S. Palmer, Sub. Asst. Commissioner.
County: Haywood; Name of Freedmen: Nelson Helms and a Freedmen name unknown; Nature of Outrage: shot and slightly wounded at the disturbance or riot at Brownsville May 13; Remarks: case referred to the Grand Jury who found two bills against six whites and eleven colored persons.
County: Gibson; Name of Freedmen: name unknown; Nature of Outrage: lynched by a mob near Lynn Point, charged with attempt to commit a rape; Remarks: no action taken by civil authorities.
County: Gibson; Name of Freedmen: George Tatum; Nature of Outrage: Assault with intent to kill. Party of roughs went to Tatum's house and made a brutal assault upon him, breaking two of his fingers and collar bone; Remarks: no action taken by civil authorities.
County: Gibson; Name of Freedmen: name unknown; Nature of Outrage: assault with intent to kill. The same party who assaulted Tatum went to a Negroes quarters on Mrs. Singleton's plantation and upon being refused admittance, fired several shots into the door. The freedman returned the fire, killed one and wounded two others; Remarks: no action taken by civil authorities.
County: Madison; Name of Freedmen: Bill Tice; Nature of Outrage: shot and severely wounded while at work on a Mrs. Johnson's plantation in Madison County. John Dewberry, Tim Wade & Pone Womble went from McNairy County to Mrs. Johnson's plantation and after shooting Tice, took him back with them to McNairy Co.; Remarks: the civil authorities are powerless to make any arrest in this case.
County: Madison; Name of Freedmen: Silas Bills; Nature of Outrage: assault & cruelly beaten by Jonas Davis; Remarks: case referred to civil authorities & Davis indicted by the Grand Jury.
Thos. J. Palmer
Lieut. Col. & VCR
Sub. Asst. Commissioner
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