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Respectfully solicit a situation of some kind in your dept. I can furnish first class reference from any Col and others in N.Y. I may be very wrong in this addressing you and intruding upon your valuable time but I beg pardon for so doing and if you will be kind — enough to reply to this it will be a great favor. which I have no right to expect 
I am General
Very Respectfully
Your Obt Servant
John S Loud 
Late Capt 12" NY Cav