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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"

Columbia, Tenn.
August 12, '68
Eastman, H. A., Agent
Report of Murders Committed during the year ending July 1, "68

List of Murders in Counties of Maury and Marshall, Tenn. from July 1^st, 1867 to July 1^st, 1868

Date of Murder	Name of Person Murdered	Color	Name of Murderer	Color	Action taken by Civil Courts
Dec. 1867	John Courtney, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
Feby. 29, 1868	Bicknell, shot	White	Pitts alias Waters	White	Arrested by volunteer squad & lodged in Jail
March 3^rd, 1868	Pitts alias Waters, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
March 13^th, 1868	Ruth Jones, shot	Colored	McKinley	White	In Jail awaiting trial
April 7^th, 1868	Henry Fitzpatrick, hung & shot	Colored	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
April 7^th, 1868	Rev. Littleton Lincoln, hung	White	Ku Klux Klan	White	No arrests made
May 1868	Colored field hand, shot	Colored	Jas. Campbell	Colored	No arrests made, warrant issued. Fled
Date not known	John Washington, shot	Colored	Lou Perry	Colored	In Jail awaiting trial
Date not known	Tom Jourdan, shot	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made
Date not known	Alf Rainey, hung	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made
Date not known	Tom Kelley	Colored	Ku Klux Klan		No arrests made

Four other murders in the County by "Ku Klux" have been reported but dates and names cannot be procured.

Very Respectfully
H. A. Eastman
Agt. Bu. R. F. & A. L.

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