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Title: Amos T. Akerman to J. S. McEwan, 1 December 1871
Date: December 1, 1871
Whitman Archive ID: nar.02634
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Dec. 1, 1871.
Lieut. J. S. McEwan,
Fourth Artillery,
Raleigh, N. C.
Sir:
I have your letter of the 24th ultimo, from Westbrook Township, Sampson Co., and am very much obliged to you for the information which it contains. Since writing before, I have found papers which I suppose were the ones referred to in your previous communication relating to Shotwell.
I have looked over with great interest the copies of the confessions which you sent me. They are of the same sort as those with which I am familiar in South Carolina.
I shall be very glad if you will continue to forward similar papers when they contain any thing of an unusual character.
Very respectfully,
A. T. Akerman,
Attorney General
letter &c rec'd (Ku Klux N. C.)