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assailed and maligned. Without wishing to be facetious I will say finally that if all the Officers in the Military Service of the United States practiced the vice of intemperance to no greater extent than Lieut Williams, I am inclined to believe that our Commissioners of Internal Revenue would speedily find a perceptible diminution in the aggregate of their receipts from tax on alcoholic liquors I am Sir, Very Respectfully Your Obed. Servt. Thomas H Norton Captain 24th U.S. Infantry Bvt Major USA Sub. Asst. Commr. B.R.F. and A.L. Commanding Post of Jackson