To all whom it may concern

The bearer hereof M. F. Stone a private of Captain John Thompson's Company 3^rd Regiment of Texas Cavalry aged forty four years five feet high a fair complexion blue eyes dark hair, and by profession a farmer born in the County of Grayson in the State of Virginia on the 17^th day of November 1818 and enlisted at Quitman in the County of Wood and State of Texas on the 19^th day of September 1861 to serve for a period of one year is hereby permitted to go to Rusk County in the State of Texas he having received a furlough from the 3^rd day of December 1861 to the 1^st day of March 1862 at which period he will rejoin his company wherever it may then be or be considered a deserter

 

Given under my hand at Camp Ector in Upshur County Texas, this 3^rd day of December A.D. 1861.

                                                                                               

M F Locke Col

Comg 34 Regmt

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