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Before the Hopkins was killed it was commonly said in the Company & also by many people out of the Battalion that the prisoner was out of his mind.

Cross exd
I have known him abt 11 months.
The confinement for breaking his trunk &c was in the guard room, not in the Hospital.
I never knew any man that was insane.
I think he was confined a week for the 1st offence & some days for the 2d.
He had drank on the day