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he had six sons in the Confederate Army with divers & Union personal friends many of whom were forced into the army by conscription - & with them he did fully sympathize & thinks it probably that with his sympathies for these men he may have sympathies comtemplated by the oath required & would therefore ask that the appointment may be made with the knowledge of striking out the words "Sympathising, &c." H. G. Crawford Georgia } Thomas County } The undersigned take pleasure in saying that we have known Judge Hardy G. Crawford well for a long time, that his character is as high & as good as any mans in Decatur County that he is an honest fair man, that he is now