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i have long held with my old disease of my longs could not gat you and [strikethrough] others of my family and my family and my daughter died in time of it and i told one of the commanders and our possision i had nothing but [?] in my house but that never prepared nothing for my famualy nothing more but respectfully yours
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H. P. Powell 

writ to Clufs post office