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George Green, a lawyer lived in Broad St. near Middle. Has a plantation of 800 or 900 acres 15 miles up the Neuse, near the river. has never lost possession of it, as it was beyond our lines. He stumped the Dist before the State went out, was elected to the convention, and voted the state out. He took ground before the people in favor of a restoration of the union on the ground of the Crittenden Compromise, or, if not that, to go with the South.

Emmet Cuthbert went up to Norfolk and worked on fortifications there, invented a torpedo & blew up one of our ships in the James River! He was a rank notorious original and pestilential secessionist, so says Mr. John Dibble late Postmaster. Cuthbert looks like a gentleman, and apart from his course as a rebel, is said to be honorable & reliable.

Transcription Notes:
Crittenden Compromise — an unsuccessful proposal to permanently enshrine slavery in the United States Constitution, introduced by United States Senator John J. Crittenden on December 18, 1860 pestilential — annoying