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struggle which has now thank God ended. I voted for Stephen A Douglass for President. I have never held any office, either civil, or military. And my only son was too young to go into the Army. I took the oath the first visit I made to this place; after the surrender of our Army; I ask therefore for the Restoration of Fort Davis and the lands reported abandoned
To Your Obdnt Servant
William A. Gregory