[RD]

Dear Dent

Your favor of the 22nd Inst

by Capt Baker enclosing thirty $30 Dollars

for J. A. Sylvester Selma Ala for

a Coat purchased of him is at

hand – I notice what you say about

Bullock and regret to be compelled to

state that his manner of proceedure in

this matter furnishes me abundant

cause to complain – This however would

not be the case if I was urging him

to pay the amount – or did I ever as much

as expect him to pay all of it next January

(which I am well aware will not be done) – but

when I am simply asking him to give his notes

for,, accts,, that have been standing from one

to two years at the same time being in

possession of the very these a/cs,, [accounts] and they receipted

it certainly is a source of great annoyance

to me – I would not care any thing about

it if the Amount was small – but twelve

or fourteen Hundred dollars being the Amt,,

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without Note and the a/cs Receipted and

in his possession is pretty severe.

I cannot see for my life why he

will not give his note for it was

his own proposition to fix it the way

I have – If you cannot get him to

sign the notes send me the memoran-

dum back and I will make it convenient

to suit [or “sue” (word is smeared)] him if he ever comes home.

I dislike very much for a man to

treat me as he has done in this

case. I notice in the Columbus Sun

some Correspondent writing from

Pensacoli says one Mr Roburson from

the 10th Mississippi Reg an editor when

at home is to be shot next Friday

for sleeping at his post – this

I am powerfully ^ ‘sorry’ to hear of – also

another one from his Youthfulness and

inexperience will be punished sixty days

and then ^ ‘be’ Drummed out of Camp

Pretty bad treatment for just taking

a short nap of sleep –

Yours truly

W. H. Locke

William H. Locke Confederate soldier in John Hardy’s “Eufala Minute Men” and Captain George A. Robert’s Co. C., Fourth Battalion, Alabama Cavalry; before and after the war a dry goods merchant in Eufaula, Alabama.

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