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keep my Horse himself. The next day I offord him my watch and Twenty five Dollars. he said it was no use to talk to him about that Horse I could not get him nor no one else. he was going to take him home. I then asked him if he would not put him up at the Public Auction, he said all Government Horses would have to be put up. and if he was put up I would have as good a chance at him as any one. On the Morning of the sale Janny
I went to Lt. Long, and asked him to have the Horse put up. Lt. Long. said Stockton. that Horse wont be sold. I have bought him myself. I said, why, and how, did you buy him, he said I went to Lexington. and bought him, I said to him that is a curious way of doing business, for you told me that evrything had to be sold at a Public Sale. and had to be present when sold. I then said to him, Lt. Long, you know very well that if you had taken that Horse any where and put him up at a Public sale he would have brought Three Hundred Dollars. Lt. Long, said well thats. my business. I gave One Hundred and Seventy five Dollars for him. I said that is a pretty way to make money for the Government, Well it is no use for you to change any words about it.

To my certain knowledge that Horse did not go to Lexington, to the Sail neither before the Sale, nor after the Sale,

Subscribed and Sworn to before me this Seventeenth Day of February 1866, at Salisbury Rowan County, N,C,

John, A. Stockton

Justin Hodge,
Capt, & A,Q,M,