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the within letter to have emanated from one of the parties noted above, at the hands of a "true Southern Secessionist", who loves the so-called "Yankee" as only a Mississippian can love.

I crave your indulgence in rendering my report at length, with the full knowledge that if any one had been so long stationed in Mississippi as myself, and on the same duty (which is so obnoxious to the nostril of a Rebel.) they could not express their sentiments, in justice to themselves, in terms more brief.

I am General 
Very Respectfully 
Your Obedient Servant
A W Wills
Bvt. Lt. Col. and A.Q.M.

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A W Wills