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I can give as good a recommandation as any poor man would need to have of my character or my Republican principals all that can be said of me I Deserted the Rebels and went over to the Union Army because I knew that the Union was right Respectfully L A Birchett Let me here from you soon Petersburg June 12, 69 L. A. Birchett