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letter which I wrote in my letter to you on Friday, and I have repeated it because I doubted whether you would receive it or not, as I sent it down to Louisville by our Quarter-master Sergeant, M. S. Sanford who when he got there immediately got beastly drunk, and I did not know whether he had mailed it or not. When he returned the cap't sent for him. He rode up to the Capt's tent and dismounting from his horse, says he , "Captain I. I. I go-go-got the bread.

                  The Capt immediately ordered him under arrest, and next day (Saturday) placed him in the ranks as a private; removing him from his office and appointing Calvin Durand, well known to father, of the firm, Durand Brothers and [Pomins?], on S. Water St.