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Lieut TP Richardson
Actg Asst Adjt General
Bu RF & AL Texas
Austin Texas

Lieut

There is a Hotel in this place the landlord of which is one of the most uncompromising Rebels in the Country. His house is the Hd Qrs of the Rebels & all the devilish schemes that have been carried out here lately were discussed & concocted in his Office. No one but a Rebel will board with him. Recently I had occasion to try to arrest a man that was stopping at his Hotel. On the guard reaching the house he did not happen to be in, but so soon as they left - The proprietor Mr. Barcly sent him word & prevented the arrest. Yet this man had been guilty of creating an alarm by firing his (over)