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To Major General Swayne
Montgomery
Ala-

The application of S.H. Sedberry of Centre, Cherokee County Ala., respectfully shows-
§1 In June 1865 as the 10th Ohio Regiment was enroute for home, it camped some two or more days at or near Van Buren in DeKalb County Ala. 
§2 A member of the command had a broken down horse with a very sore back and wholly unable for service.
§3. An exchange was made by the owner of the horse with a citizen for one with a sound back and able for service.
§4. The horse left by the cavalry-man was kept in the neighborhood for some two or more months and was traded for one O.W. Ward, who kept him in the same county and about eight miles from the place where he was exchanged by the soldier to the citizen until some time in February 1866, where he was traded to S.H. Sedberry the present claimant, who resides in Centre, in Cherokee County Alabama, Centre being the county site of the paid County and 18 miles distant from Van Buren.
§5. The horse was kept and used publicly from the time Sedberry got him, as a family and plantation horse, used in cultivating his crops, for milling and family purposes as as exigencies required until May 1867.
§6. That one David L. Nicholson of Dekalb County aforesaid in May 1867, having obtained an order

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For the stamp that shared the lines with Montgomery Ala- in the heading, I wasn't sure how to format it. I was also confused on how to include the symbols before the numbers at the left of the page.