United States Congressional Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States

Title: United States Congressional Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States
Source Type: Federal Record
Publisher: United States Congress
Publication Place: Washington, D.C.
Publication Date: 2/19/1872
Transcript: "Question. What case was that?
Answer. That was the case of the killing of a man; I cannot recollect his name-Harvey something; he was a negro man; it was in Perry County. That I understood to have been done by disguised men; but I have also understood that he stated before his death-he was murdered under circumstances of very great barbarity-that it was the result of a personal feud between him and others of his own race.
Question. What was his name?
Answer. Harvey McCann
Question. How many were concerned in his murder?
Answer. I understood that when they furst took him, there were some twenty-five or thirty, I think.
Question. In what year was that!
Answer. I cannot recollect this year; it not being in our country, I did not charge my memory with it. In fact, I would not be positive as to any of these dates, only that they have within three or four years. I might verify them by taking time to think. "
Sources for: AMP105-18700718-001