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tion, and will not expose me as the informer, I will give you the name of the man said to be guilty, and the names of the witnesses. Should I be known as the informer, I would be in danger of my life. I came here a stranger, a refugee from Dalton Ga. at the latter end of 1863, having been plundered of nearly every thing I owned by Bragg's army, and I have met with much the same treatment from most of the people here. And it would not be difficult to get up a mob here now or assassinate a man in the dark. I was threatened with personal violence because I did not go into the Confederate service, although I was exempted by age and infirmity, and also by my profession. I am a southern man and of southern proclivities, but I believe the property of the Confederacy to belong rightly to the whole U.S. Government, and taking from that Government to be unjustly robbing the whole people, and hence I deem it a duty to make all [[?]] of the kind possible.

very Respectfully Yours
James A. Wallace.