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NARA 0214

War Department,
Adjutant General's Office,
Washington, D.C. March 4, 1878.

Captain H.S. Hawkins, 6th Inf.
Disbursing Officer,
Louisville, Ky.

Captain:

Referring to the claim of Henry Cartwright, late Private Co. B. 42d. U.S.C.T. - sent to you this day -; I have to inform you that the Second Auditor of the Treasury has informed this office, under date of the 26th. ultimo, that "the claimant now bears the name of Henry Moore, and lives on Monroe Russell's place, four miles west of Madison Station, Madison Co., Ala."

In view of the alleged change of claimants name, and of the fact that eight years have elapsed since the claim was settled,