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Camp Alcorn 1^st Regt
Miss Vols,, Near Hopkinsville Ky

Decr 24th 1861

Gov J. J. Pettus
Jackson Miss

Sir

My Company, ("Walker Reserves") was called to rendezvous at Iuka Miss. on 24th last August, and prior to that time I notified you that my First Lieut Nathan, S, Patterson and Third Lieut, David C. C. Rodgers (whom you had commissioned) to=gether with a number of said com=pany had gone to Virginia and other places in the army—without permis=sions;—and upon arriving at Iuka with my company

G. M. Mosely
Dec^r 24^th 1861