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Gen'l Stanley (Chief of Cavalry) is extremely fond of guarding rebel property. While at Huntsville, he had guards over every peach and apple tree within 2 ms of H-

         Gen'l Turchin whom you no doubt have heard of before is just the opposite and treated the rebs at Huntsville in just an opposite manner. 
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