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display of feeling, perhaps on the side of both parties.  They do not contain evidence of wrong on the part of the officer, any further than has already been referred to as an indiscretion, and are written almost without exception by persons who can not fairly be considered disinterested parties.  It will not be right to condemn an officer upon this kind of ex-parte testimony, particularly when collected by one who in his last communication to this office, uses these words.  "During the late war though perhaps less vociferous and abusive of the Yankee soldiers and the then called Yankee Government, I was not less sincere in my aversion to them or less intense in my sympathy with the Confederate cause than Mrs. S." (who writes a letter for Lt. Chase) "and her immediate friends, and probably, now that the battle has been fought and lost, I am not much less loyal, in truth, to the new condition of things, but I don't happen to have any interest in proclaiming it or in affecting a special concern for the rights and comfort of those I so lately despised.  Neither the officers or soldiers of the Federal army have conferred any benefit pecuniary or other on me since the war and I am insensible to any

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---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-09-24 00:34:09 Unsure if the repeated quotation marks along the margins should be included within the transcription or not I generally include only the first and last quotation marks