Letter: Atlanta, Georgia, to Major General Oliver Otis Howard, Washington, D.C., 1868 Oct. 6 Sibley, Caleb Chase, 1806-1875 United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands Freedmen--Georgia--Violence against Reconstruction--Georgia Political violence--Georgia--Camilla Mitchell County (Ga.)--Politics and government Mitchell County (Ga.)--Race relations Howard, O. O. (Oliver Otis), 1830-1909 In this letter, dated October 6, 1868, from the Georgia Freedmen's Bureau Assisant Commissioner, General Caleb C. Sibley in Atlanta to the Bureau's Comissioner in Washington D.C., General Oliver Otis Howard, Sibley tells Howard he is forwarding the affidavits from witnesses to the Camilla incident collected by Georgia Bureau agent Christian Raushenberg. He also forwards a report by Raushenberg and a copy of the Albany Daily News with an article pertaining to the incident. Sibley remarks on the unlikelihood of bringing the guilty parties to justice through the Mitchell County authorities and further notes that he is including a private letter from Raushenberg that is not to be published at Raushenberg's request, but may be considered as a part of the his report. Document ID: cam008. Digital image and transcription created by the Digital Library of Georgia in 2001 of a photocopy held by DeSoto Trail Regional Library of an original record held by the National Archives. Athens, Ga. : Digital Library of Georgia DeSoto Trail Regional Library System United States. National Archives and Records Administration 2001 Letters (correspondence) Text http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/zlcu/id:cam008 3 pages/leaves image/jpeg image/x-djvu text/html Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: AT&T DjVu browser plug-in needed to view images of documents. Forms part of United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records held by the National Archives. 1868-10-06 Camilla (Ga.) Mitchell County (Ga.) This work is the property of the University of Georgia Libraries. It may be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use as long as this statement of availability is included in the text. Cite as: [title of item], United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. Records. National Archives and Records Administration, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia