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what has become of it. But so intent was the Col on holding me to account for mal-administration, that I proposed to refer the matter to you & if you say I must pay the boy or the Govt for the pistol I will do so. 
What I done, was done for good, and if I had not been in some case driven back Cold men & seceshonists would have done much evil that I trust was prevented.
A case in which I fined four men for gambling, & ordered the cotton back to the owner on account of his family has been referred to you.
Now General I respectfully ask of you, that, if my official acts have to be investigated, that, some one be ordered to do it instead of Col Callis. From the time he came to Huntsville he seemed to think & act as if, I had been guilty of