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0357

[[stamp]] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES [[/stamp]]

"C" (1)

Georgia
Whitfield County

Personally came George W. Selvidge agt B.F.R. A L. and being duly sworn says that Dr L P. Gudger is simply mistaken, to say the least of it, in his judgment that deponent favors poor and needy rebels to the exclusion of Union citizens, in the distribution of rations. That deponent has made no such "exclusion" and the fact that no instance is named wither in the affidavit of Dr Gudger or any one else is pretty conclusive that deponent is discharging his duty to the best of his ability. It is exceedingly difficult, so to discriminate as to protect the government from imposition on the one hand, and allow those who are really intended by it to share its bounty.

Deponent has done the very best he could. He may have committed errors but he has