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Sira: I notice in your issue of Oct ^12, that you qredit one George a ,Griffin of Magnolia, with my war^record of 'Aug. 20, 1861* to May 15 \l 1866. Now the record of service as ' . to'length oMime is correct and I am^+uroud-of-ifcr but-the name isA-OGRKECEONVJ*» » ,v . —“Oct: 14, infczrMItsiurhitcsn:rcct; as my name -1s George l3.t»Hfrfitft not Griffin. Neither is your Jq- ?4 cation correct as I web born on :,v Quaker Lane v/ithin one mile from'*’’ where I now live/Fpb. 5, 1843, not lt;* 18S6. Neither did I pass away inlt; f 1867, or if I did I am the liveliest cofpse you ever saw, after being dead so long, 49 years. Now if you careto rectify _your_ statement and gi?e:?tho devil his jusf dues, I will mail ' yon under separate cover a copy 0! my new song, “Dreamland/’ forproof of ray present existence. Per-Chops the fellow who wrote my Idea- .*;lion and obituary .was in' “Dreamland” when wrote it.My Army Record.~I enlisted Aug.**-20, 1861, ftg a private in Co. ,rE/lI*rZ7Ih III. Vol. Tnft and veteran^*'hFeb 10 ,1864. at Brownsville, Texaat and received my final discharge from1‘8 6 6 r aalUsame regiment, my services being no longer required/ The 37th retainedhar-nrig±n.nJ nrpniy^flnn «tn?| .vto finish, a continuous service of four -V, long years, eight months and twenty- S eight days, withe ut a break Pea Ridge or Ellkhorn Tavern, Ark./‘; Prairfe Grove, Ark.; Siege of Vicks- ~zburg; Miss., and Siege of Biakciy, rr -Al^-W-fitc .ft-few-Of the aklrmiahca wa got mixed up withZ—^George E. Grlf- -fith. /The mistake of the ’paragraph published last week occurred by con-founding of qames. We gladly pub- v lish the above as a correction
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Henry Republican
Henry, Illinois, US
Thu, Oct 19, 1916
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