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& had some evidence taken before Judge Lukey, when he was here, now Sir, Mr. Botkin has had no chance to bring evidence against Mr. Burket because I as his counsel was not here when Judge Lukey was here & Mr. Botkin was not notified of the fact, if sir, you will let us, we can show that Mr. Burket was this kind of a man during the war, it is true he was through the lines, but was as often back as through  his whole occupation was that of a Pedlar [peddlar] from the Confed. side to the U. S. side & Sir we can show that he not only brought in goods & sold to the Confed's, but brought, powder, caps & lead & sold to them & that on one occasion, when some of the U. S. troops were in here, he Mr. Burket, furnished powder, caps & lead to some soldiers, who had come to bushwhack the U. S. troops, these facts sir, we can establish beyond all question of doubt by as good men as there is in this county, now sir, this is the case of Botkin against Burket, I know that you have been misinformed about it. The court not long since received your order & would have obeyed it then, but I as counsel asked the Court to allow us to write to Lt. Cook at Staunton, Lt. Cook, says, he has nothing to do with the case that you are the proper person, I asked the indulgence of the Court, in order that I might state the

[[stamp]] STATE OF VIRGINIA
BUREAU OF R. F. & A. L. REC'D ASST. COMMISSIONER. AUG 10 1866 [[/stamp]]

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