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what had occurred elsewhere & at home, which matters I never inquired about, but they helped to give an unfavorable impression. I have heard him rather boastfully speak of his own want of chastity. I do not believe he had the least sympathy for the colored race - that his mind could be seen in a statement he more than once made to me viz: that after the war he would make a fortune by going into the liquor business in some southern city. I looked upon him as a man with the downward tendencies, & it is accident if such men help much in elevating other men or to race. 

He had at this time some difficulty for which charges were brought. I was not interested enough to ask how it was. I understood he was acquitted. His chief clerk, a man of my regiment & in whom I have confidence informed me some months after that Barnes was cleared because a strong influence was brought to bear on him to modify his testimony & he saw & felt that he had done wrong. He remarked that to his positive knowledge Barnes was guilty of defaulting to Gov't

I feel that I have said enough &

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