No
provocation. Case happened on August 19, in this city.
These cases came to my notice as surgeon in charge of the post hospital at
Montgomery. I treated them myself, and certify that the above statements
are correct.
Montgomery Hall, _August_ 21, 1865.
J.M. PHIPPS,
_Acting Staff Surgeon, in charge Post Hospital_.
_List of colored people wounded and maimed by white people, and treated in
Freedmen's hospital since July 22, 1865_.
1. William Brown, shot in the hand; brought here July 22.
2. William Mathews, shot in the arm; brought here August 11. Shot on
Mathews's plantation by a neighbor of Mr. Mathews, who was told by Mr.
Mathews to shoot the negro.
3. Amos Whetstone, shot in the neck by John A. Howser, August 18, in this
city. Howser halted the man, who was riding on a mule on the road; had an
altercation with Mr. Whetstone; Howser, Whetstone's son-in-law, shot him
while he was going to town.
The above cases came to my notice as assistant surgeon at this hospital.
Similar cases may have been treated here before I entered upon my duties,
of which I can give no reliable account.
J.E. HARVEY,
_Assistant Surgeon 58th Illinois.
Freedmen's Hospital,
_Montgomery, Alabama, August_ 21, 1865.
No. 21.
OFFICE PROVOST MARSHAL,
_Post of Selma, Alabama, August_ 22, 1865.
I have the honor to report the following facts in regard to the treatment
of colored persons by whites within the limits of my observation:
There have come under my notice, officially, twelve cases in which I am
morally certain (the trials have not been had yet) that negroes were
killed by whites.
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