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Re: Was a physical description really necessary?

Well Ed since you brought it up how about this. First the numbers, a few young ladies would have been carrying CS mail and contraband versus maybe hundreds or even thousands of males. Any description of these two young ladies would have penned them down real quick, if they had went back to the same area they came from and started their CS mail and contraband service again. I don't think these two young ladies would have gotten back home and said lets move to Texas or Florida and start our CS mail and contraband service there. So all the Federal authorities at Camp Chase had to do is send a notice or description (by Telegraph) of these two ladies to probably the Federal troops that were stationed in the area where they were caught on their first mail/contraband excursion.
First of all the the Feds wanted nothing to do with these two young ladies at Camp Chase, thousands of men and two girls. We wouldn't even be discussing this had two girls not showed up at Camp Chase, very rare indeed. I would say they brought them in, took down their information and wrote a detailed phsyical description like any other prisoner and said any thing they could think of to scare and intimidate these two young ladies. Then they were sent on their way with a stern warning "We knows What You Look Like and We Knows Where You Stays". I would say you couldn't get these two girls near anything that resembled a mail sack. Any Spy, Guerrilla fighter, or Contraband carrier working in a known area, when indentified a description of him or her would soon be circulating in that area. So you were a policeman, I have been a Medal Detective for over forty years.

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