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rent and that he was willing to board me as stated for twenty six dollars per month I cannot see that I should allow Holly his lawyer or Beaton to say where I should board, Mr Beaton keeps a "mechanics boarding house" Mechanics have always been a dispised class of men in the south - and sir sooner than be compelled by the class of people who rule here, and who deem it noble to hate yankee's, and to dispise all men who have been loyal to the Govmt of the United States

I say sooner than be compelled to live among the "common herd" as these people term working men, I would spend the balance of my life in a log cabin in the woods, as I am living now - 

I want these people to know that I have some self respect and that I have not been sent here as a foot ball for them to kick about as they please - 

Doubtless Mr Beaton would board me for twenty six dollars per month and give me corn bread and bacon three times a day 

I had supposed any communication coming here in which my rights were at stake would at least have been reffered to me - so that I would have some chance of placing myself right in the eyes of my commanding officer -