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^[[ [S 99 ENCL] ]]

Militaire Prison Post of
Charlotte, Charlotte N. C.
September 16^th 1867.

Captain H. M. Lazelle 8^th Infantry U. S. Army
Commanding.

I take the oportunity to write you a few lines to make a true statement about Priv. H. Nehab's and my Case.

In the first statement which I made to you I told you that D^r R. B. Matlack didn't know anything about the whole affair, I done so, because D^r R. B. Matlack told me several times that, if I ever should be ask about the performance of our duties, I should take the whole responsibylite on my own shouldres, for no one could do any harm to me, and further, he said I should never say that he knew the least about my doings, so I thought, he as a medical Officer and in Charge of the Freedmens Hospital would shurely be ac'quainted with his and my duties, and I thought, that, if I should fail to perform my duties in a proper and right manner he would shurely tell me of it, but every time when I told him that I had done so and so, he said that's all right, so it
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