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State of Mississippi Sunflower County
To the Commander of the Post at Vicksburg Mi
We the undersigned Petitioners residents of County, & state aforesaid would respectfully represent to you that we are well acquainted with Mr Saml Rose of this county & believe him to be a man of great integrity Therefore we take pleasure in presenting him to you as a man well calculated to fill the office of Provost Marshall in this County. We would respectfully request that he be appointed to that office &c.
[left column]
Wm. M.D. Martin
John D Chickering
A.M. Martin
Wm D. Clement
F.B. Truley
M.A. Morgan
H H Farnsworth
C.T. Purnell
C W Welden
J.R. Bertram
Ben G. Humphreys
Thomas Barnes
Ishan Sanders
Thomas [[?]]
J F Holden
T.C. Whitmore
C. Gillerpin
Robert Gillerpin
Thomas Duncan
John Thomson
T.P. Youngblood
J.M. Jennings

[right column]
N M Leed
A. Heathman
Augustus Catehings
P W Browning
H. Johnson
Wm R Smith
D B Smith
William Mathews
T P Muirhead
Alexd. Mathews
DRG Martin
C W Sanders
M.A. [[Merlin?]]
John H Martin
Wm R Wrenn
W, T. Lipson
A.G. Wrenn
A McArthur
Eli Waites
W. Q. Poindexter
T.J. Gibson
E S Butler
L T Barket

Transcription Notes:
Please review names: many of them are sloppy or writing is faint F.B Truley looks more like F.R. Frisley Thomas [[?]] looks like Thomas Brimns T.P. Muirhead looks like T.P. Zuirhead or Quirhead M.A. [[Merlin]] is M.A. Martin