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            <dateline>Wednesda<date when="1862-06-24"/>y 24.</dateline>
            <p>I went to <placeName>New Bern</placeName> this morning with <persName>Lt. Kelly</persName> to get him a leave of absence.
               We went to <persName>Gen. Reno</persName> who told us that in the present state of affairs he had
               concluded to give no leaves of absence or furloughs that if affairs at <placeName>Richmond</placeName>
               turned out as they expected, in about two weeks they intended to give leaves of
               absence to one or perhaps two officers of each company. As I was going down
               town I met an officer of the 48th who said the his field and staff wished to
               make some affidavits before me: I said I would meet them at any time between
               that and four o’clock at the <placeName>Gaston House</placeName>. He fixed twelve. About that time he
               came in a <objectName type="transportation">bu<objectName/>ggy</objectName> with an invitation to dine with the Col. I refused to go and he
               then said they would come up to our camp tomorrow. They've got to come to me
               after this. Just after this there leapt of a <objectName>scho<objectName/>oner</objectName> <objectName type="transportation">Moses B</objectName> Something, came
               to me to make an affidavit to his log. He had been sent by <persName>Capt. Biggs</persName> out to
               our camp. I told him that I was as only Com. for <placeName>Pennsylvania</placeName> - but as if was
               for the Government to pay on - &amp; I’m the only civil personage in <placeName>North Carolina</placeName> I suppose it will answer. When I refused fees he appeared to be
               astonished, but I told him that so long as I was in the pay of the United
               States, I did not 
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               <fw>June 24. 1862 cont. </fw> consider it right to make money off [torn] ... <persName>Em French</persName>'s whore-house has blown off [torn] ... There were a lot of officers
               there – she [torn] blackguarding them out of the <objectName type="building">windows</objectName> [torn] calling them
               damned Yankee sons of bitches &amp; came out onto the <objectName type="building">porc<objectName/>h</objectName> with a <objectName type="equipment">revolv<objectName/>er</objectName> –
               Fired three shots rapidly, shooting a handsome young officer who was standing
               quietly in the middle of the street, in the abdomen. The soldiers were
               gathering and about gutting the <objectName type="building">house</objectName> and preparing to hang <persName>Em French</persName> on the<objectName type="nature"> tr<objectName/>ee</objectName>, when <persName>Robert Marshall Col Kurtz</persName> arrived – arresting four whores – handsome
               girls – Marching them down the middle of the street to the jail, and toting the
               dozen officers off as witnesses. <persName>Fred Etweine</persName> said this: he is one of those
               fellows that is always about when anything was going on. <persName>John Kenedy</persName> &amp; <persName>Jim. Gibson</persName> are such characters. To be shot by a whore – the officers that were
               inside – one standing on the <objectName type="building">porch</objectName> with her – it's very disgraceful. <persName>Col. Kurtz</persName>
               in his wrath let out some forcible expressions about the way the house had been
               upheld. I met <persName>Sgt. Grassmine</persName>. He is a sort of detective in town. He told me he
               caught too small boatloads of <objectName type="food">salt</objectName> going across the <placeName>Neuse</placeName> into the rebels
               lines. It <name type="weather">rained</name> this evening. I talked to the old d---- who said he was 104
               years old. He looks very ancient. His <objectName type="body">hair</objectName> is not grizzled much, but his <objectName type="body">toe nails</objectName> &amp; <objectName type="body">finger nails</objectName> are scaly. I asked him whether he remembered the duel
               between <persName>Spaight</persName> and <persName>Stanley</persName> - he said he did well – the first fire <persName>Stanley</persName> was
               shot in the <objectName type="clothes">sleeve</objectName> of his <objectName type="clothes">coat</objectName>, and it came out his <objectName type="body">shoulder</objectName>. The second
               <persName>Stanley</persName> shot straight through the <objectName type="body">breast</objectName>. <persName>Spaight</persName> then wanted them to raise him
               up to fire a third time, but the second refused. He said the time was fixed and
               people went down from his county – 16 miles from <placeName>New Bern</placeName> to see the battle. He
               could not tell me where it took place. He said 
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               on this place his son [?] [?]
               &amp; it was bought by <persName>Jim Niley</persName> who afterwards fell in a duel with some one I
               have forgotten who. He [torn] <persName>Jack Stanley</persName> fell dead in the <placeName>court House of Raleigh</placeName> as he was taking some oath. He always said he was going to swear to a
               lie. He was a short old bachelor <persName>Jack Stanley</persName> was - he never was nobody after
               that - he told him often that he was no man after that- he had often ferried
<persName> Jack Stanley</persName> over the river to go to <placeName>Trenton</placeName> to court. He evidently meant that
               he was struck with paralysis - as he speaks of talking to him afterwards - as
               was the fact </p>
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June 24, 1862