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clothing they need even during the present cool spell of weather, and no medacine of any kind with which to administer to their afflictions. And my mother, who is now near three score and ten, is very destitute of all comfortable winter clothing, both for her daily ware, and for her bed, so you will percieve General, that the sale of three or four sorry mules, and a few sows, and stoats, could not materially benefit the condition of my family, and would only tend to make us more needy and dependant, while a little help of the right sort would, inable me to put my family in a condition to be self supporting, and beside the great objection to selling off my stoats, it is a matter of impossibility to sell for anything like a fair price, the money, is not in the county, to buy with and people buy very cautiously, and only what they actually stand in need of, and that at very reduced prices. I had seven mules, and one very fine young horse, when the Wilson Raid came among us, but that Raid took my only horse, and the best mule I had. If I could get a fair price from the Government for these two animals it would help me very much in the purchase of necessaries for my family. Several
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