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Re: Alabama soldier located correctly

OK, I would go with the Census data as two consecutive had identical names.

However, quite a few soldiers of the time were illiterate and the transcribing clerk many times had to rely on what they thought they heard.

I’ve seen quite a few transcription errors on both census and military records for those signing with an ‘X’ “his mark.”

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