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Pearisburg Giles Co Va
16 March 1867

Lt Schaeffer

I regret exceedingly that an impression has been made on your mind that I used any subterfuge to obtain the boy on the contrary his uncle John Christian (who keeps a barber shop near the Washington House in Lynchburg) and his grandfather insisted on my taking the boy and I told them I was coming to this country and would keep the boy for a few years no specified time they were both very anxious to make him Leave the city as they considered him a bad boy, after keeping him a few months I found him perfectly manageable and let a Mr Gabriel Taylor have him who has been very kind to him.  I got him in Oct 1865 and let Taylor have him in December following 

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