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Vtt’g Rami nit*ctnce.To the Editor of The RegisterWill you permit a Confederateboy in his eighty-fourth year toenter your columns for a littlechat about the pastFifty-nine years ago, whileout on picket order at SpanishFort, I empitied out a ten-roundbunch of cartridges into my cartridge box, and that left mepossession of a lovely piece ofbuff-colored paper, about teninches square. I had a pencil inmy pocket, and I rememberedhaving seen the announcementthat it pays to advertise; and Idecided to put it to the test; andthat paper I wrote somethinglike the followings«I, a high private, in Co. A.10th Texasdismounted Cavalry,99Ector’s Brigade, in front rank,with my gun cocked, six feet oneand a half inches tall, weighingtwo hundred and ten pounds inmy stocking feet, light hair,
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Quitman Wood County Democrat
Quitman, Texas, US
Wed, Apr 16, 1924
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