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other, charges me with recommending nobody but myself to preside over the claim Division, Now Sir of all the slanderous insults to which I have been so profusely subjected, none have so deeply wronged me as these, and if you believe such things, I cannot blame you for being suspicious of me.

The truth is, I asked Genl Gregory to place a Bonded Officer over the Claim Division, and mentioned this very man Wright, who was then a Quartermaster, and though I (in common with the entire office) heartily despised him, I was willing to endure his contact, rather than be compeled to run the Division alone.

The other charge is a clear clean (or rather unclean) invention of the low-lived Wright, who as [[?]] for his father-in-law, felt called upon to trump up lies to injure my testimony. The truth in