Freedmen's Bureau Records: George B. Carse to Horace
Neide, October 9, 1866
Summary:
Carse, the Bureau Agent in Lexington, sends a telegram from Staunton to military
authorities informing them of the murder of a black man by a white law student
and alerting them to the suspect's escape.
The American Telegraph Co.
Connecting All the Principal Cities and Towns in
the United States
Dated Staunton October 9. 1866.
Received at Bureau Headquarters October 9
To Brigadier General Horace
Neide
Headquarters
Department of the Potomac
A law student named J C Johnson shot a freedman named Patrick Thompson on Sunday
P.M. - freedman died the day following. Johnson has made his escape six (6) feet
high slender fair skin no beard black hair age about twenty (20) years
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Resides Greedwood Mississippi was here this A.M. will be apt to take Tennessee Railroad at Lynchburg.
G.B. Carse
Brevet Colonel
