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Greenvill, N.C.
May 17th 1867

Dear General:

Mr: J.J. Perkins informed me, that among the men he recommended for suitable Registrars for Pitt County that he recommended me, to you, among others.  I must inform you that I have always been one of the truest union men in North Carolina, this I can establish by Gov. Holden, and a host of others, if necessary, but in 1862 I was conscripted, and to make my chance more certain of getting discharged I volunteered for the 55 Regmt, and was immediately discharged