Here in Salisbury, two prominent men are on trial by a military court, for killing a negro, and one of the wealthiest, most refined and respectable young ladies in all this section, is under twenty thousand dollars bonds to appear and answer for shooting a negro woman with her own hands.
Reid reports on a military trial involving prominent individuals accused of killing a Black man, illustrating the tensions in post-war justice.
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