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such an army raised in Gen Cass's Brigade had not Maj Taylor took your letters & kept them from me till the mail closed - I think I know your Opinion on that subject not to have kept more than a company or two nor even that except the strongest necessity required it, & those placed beyond the frontiers - but I do not see any necessity of Alarm in that quarter, & as Col. McConnel states he has drawn from every Regs of the Brigade 130 men they have an army of 1000 in the field -- If I find a priva te conveyance to Zanesville, I sha 11 write Gen V Horne th Manner you have treated those general Turnings out -- The Bearer is waiting very respectfully your Excellency Most Obt Hl Sevt Edw W Tupper |
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