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I have made myself particularly obnoxious to the secesh, who never lose an opportunity in exhibiting their feeling against me:

Even the company of the 15th Infantry stationed here for the past four months are about to be relieved in a a day or two, and may be on their way to Austin ere this reaches you. Although much assistance cannot be expected from an ignorant, barbarous and licentious soldier, the presence of even copperhead officers has a slight moral effect.

The appointments made by General Reynolds are rather sorry affairs. Too incompetent to perform the duties of their offices, they employ rebel deputies. The sheriff is a copperhead of the most venomous kind, a discharged soldier from the 4th Cavalry Capt Mauck's company, now stationed at Austin: An Irishman, and having no interest in the welfare of Union people: besides he does not know how to write his name correctly - and punctuate it.

We can put up with ignorance in officials if they should have to be independent, and open to such concessions as hiring rebel brains to procure their bread and butter. This political movement of Jack Hamilton and his friends will be the cause of driving from the state such carpetbaggers as your correspondent

Transcription Notes:
11-27-2020: secesh = A secessionist, a supporter of the Confederacy during the U.S. Civil War