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Chatham Co NC Sept 30th
Mr ZB Vance
Sir i am a
going to write you a few
Words for the Purpose of ob-
taining a Dis carge Final
From all military duty
I know Re late you my Situation
I am in my twenty Third year
and Have Had the White
Sweling in my Leg and Foot
about twenty one yeares
Which Has taken away all
my foot or very neare it and
I Will asshure you That my Leg
is one fourth part as Larger
as it out to bee and at the
Preasant There is a Runing
Sore on the bottom of my
Cl[??] near about all over
it Which is as large as the
[??] of youre Hand
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an know Govner I Beseach
you if you Have any mercy
and Feeling for youre
N.C me[n] Send me a Final
Discarge from all military
Duty i will tell you Govner
That I am as truer man
to my Coutnry as Ever
Was if I Were able to go to
the Battle Fiel I Woul of
been one of the First men
out but you Know a man
in this Circumstance Can do
Nothing but I can not get
Shut of it some How if our
Examinin board Grants me a
Cirtificate our Miletary
oficers Wont let me Have
So I appy to you as
a gentleman an a frind to
yours truly
Send me one J. W. Ellis