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Excerpt from General Orders, Vol. 69: December 7, 1864
And the Court do therefore sentence him Private John J. Hines of Company C, of the sixty-sixth North Carolina Troops, to be kept at hard labor, under guard, upon the lines of his regiment, six hours of every day (sundays excepted) for a period of six months, -having a ball weigh ing twelve pounds attached to his left leg by a chain three feet in length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
