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Ship Island Miss.
April 22 1869

O. Brown Esq
Asst Commissioner &c.
Richmond Va.

Sir:
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 3rd Inst., and in reply to your inquiries concerning the time, place, instance & circumstances under which George Martin late Private Company "B", 39 Infantry, received the inquiry, upon which was based the Supreme certificate recommending his discharge, I beg have to state as follows. At the time the inquiry was received Private Martin was on Detached Service in the Subsistence Department at New Orleans, consequently, the place where he received such injury, was, to the best of my knowledge and belief New Orleans. I regret that this is all the positive information I am able to furnish in this case. I can only surmise, in regard to the the manner of receiving the injury, that Private Martin must at the time, have become too intimately acquainted with some frail and 

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