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Headquarters, District of Texas, OFFICE OF CHIEF MEDICAL OFFICER, Galveston, Texas, July 8th, 1867. I Mrs. Mary Duffy, do solemnly swear that I am the wife of Patrick Duffy, late a soldier of Shermans Army, and now living at San Antonio, Texas where I understand he is sick of chills & fever, result of exposure in the service of the U.S. Army during the last war in America. I have been in America, about two months, was sent for by my husband. I lost all I had on the steamer "Sunny South" burned at sea, &c and this accounts for my destitute condition. I was sent by General Sheridan from New Orleans on a free pass and he instructed me to apply to the Military Commander at Galveston who he said would send me on to my