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down. I did not know that my piece was loaded, & I had no malice agt the anybody & did not intend to do any harm.
I was one of the 5 men who were called down by the orderly Serjt of my own Company as being to mount guard next morning.
I was so much in liquor that I did not know if the piece was loaded or not, or how it came to go off. I know nothing of the matter.

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Serjeant Burgess called