Letter, 1865 Oct. 31 (Beech Branch, Beaufort District, S.C.), to Capt. J[ohn] J. Upham (Lawtonville, S.C.).

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Mears, W. H. (William H.). Letter, 1865 Oct. 31 (Beech Branch, Beaufort District, S.C.), to Capt. J[ohn] J. Upham (Lawtonville, S.C.).

Letter, 1865 Oct. 31 (Beech Branch, Beaufort District, S.C.), to Capt. J[ohn] J. Upham (Lawtonville, S.C.).

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Letter of W.H. Mears to Capt. John J. Upham, complaining that members of the [104th] U.S. Colored Troops under the command of Lt. [Wellington] Wood stationed at Beech Branch Church were stealing watermelons and groundnuts [peanuts] from his property. Mears charges that he had previously caught two of them digging groundnuts. "I arrested them and sent for Lt. Wood who sent over immediately and had them carried off and today four others armed with guns came into my field and after dig[g]ing as many groundnuts as they wanted left without molestation." Mears also suspected that they were responsible also for deaths of two hogs and a cow shot in his field. The 104th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry that Mears mentions in this letter was organized at Beaufort, S.C., during April-June 1865; attached to Department of the South, the regiment served garrison and guard duty at various points in South Carolina until February 1866; mustered out 5 Feb. 1866.

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