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The regiment had considerable experience on the tramp, building bridges and cor- duroy roads ; was at the siege and taking of Spanish Fort. The last severe service of the regiment was in clambering over all obstructions of a warlike character at mid- night, and taking possession of Fort Alexis. Mobile surrendered two days afterward, April 11, and thus virtually ended the war. On the 18th of June, the regiment took another apparently aimless trip down to the coast of Texas, and remained at Galveston awhile. Thence, in July, it moved on Camp Butler ; took that place on the 2d of August, and arrived in Bloomington on the 9th, having traveled 8,000 miles, been in nine encounters with the enemy, served in six States, never been defeated nor repulsed, and having seen the object of its mission accomplished.
CHANGES.
Col. W. W. Orme was promoted to Brigadier General in November, 1862; Lieut. Col. McNulta became Colonel; Maj. Laughlin became Lieutenant Colonel; Capt. Briscoe was promoted to Major; Capt. McFarland became Major ; Capt. Routt, Assistant Quar- termaster ; Adjt. Burr, Adjutant General ; Capt. J. P. Orme, shot by accident ; Capt. Burch, Provost Marshal ; Lieuts. Okeson, Owen, Denison, Vanatta, Moore, Howell and Hays became Captains. Seven deaths occurred in action, and forty-five were wounded. The Ninety-Fourth served three years, and everywhere did honor to itself and to McLean County. One hundred and fifty-seven died from various causes, 164 were discharged, 149 were recruits, and 26 were neither killed, discharged, mustered out, nor did they die in the service.
TWENTY-SIXTH ILLINOIS INFANTRY.
Company K, of the Twenty-sixth Illinois, was recruited in Bloomington, and organized in December, 1861, Ira J. Bloomfield, Captain ; Allen H. Dillon, First Lieu- tenant, and John B. Bruner, Second Lieutenant. The company joined its regiment at Hannibal, Mo., February 6, 1862. It participated in the battles and skirmishes attend- ing the capture of New Madrid, Point Pleasant, Riddle's Point and Island No. 10.
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The company with its regiment, in the summer, went down the Mississippi, then up the Tennessee, and fought all over Northern Mississippi and Western Tennessee-at Farni- ington, Corinth, Iuka, Holly Springs, Collierville, and around generally. In 1863, it was at the siege of Vicksburg and Jackson ; thence it marched to Memphis, and went with Sherman to Chattanooga, and suffered severely at the battle of Mission Ridge, one third of the men and officers of the regiment being killed or wounded. They were then hurried up to the relief of Knoxville ; thence to Marysville and to Scottsboro, Ala. In these marches, the men suffered severely for the want of clothes and shoes.
In 1864, the company figured in all the terrible and exciting scenes around Atlanta, Ga., thence in the grand march to the sea ; soon after it appeared in South Carolina, then in North Carolina; was at the capitulation of Johnston, and moved thence through Rich- mond to Washington ; participated in the grand review of Gen. Sherman, tarried awhile at Crystal Springs, D. C., and mustered out at Louisville July 20, 1865.
Capt. Bloomfield was promoted, in the mean time, to Lieutenant Colonel, and then to Colonel ; and Lieutenant Bruner to Captain, and then to Major. Out of the con- pany there were killed Second Lieut. Thomas E. Ludwig, Melville R. Haynie, Martin Hanley, August Oker, Daniel Allison, Benjamin C. Hill, John D. Weaver and Edwin S. Loveland. Died of disease, Robertson Grant, Mark F. Onion, William R. Beers, William R. Cheney, John McKay and Timothy Crane.
FIRST ILLINOIS CAVALRY.
By admitting thirty men from Putnam County, Company A of the First Illinois Cavalry, was formed at Bloomington, and mustered into the United States service July 5, 1861, with John McNulta, Captain ; George F. Jannatt, First Lieutenant; and J. B. Dent, from Putnam County, Second Lieutenant. The company soon passed over into Missouri, and was ordered to report to Col. U. S. Grant, commanding at Mexico. Capt. McNulta's company was employed to break up the organizations of rebels around the country, and to employ home-guards and friendly citizens to drive the enemy out of the vicinity, and operate against an organizing force under Gen. Harris, in which they were successful.
The company was then ordered to move on to Lexington via Jefferson City, with the rest of the regiment, and there relieved a small garrison of men besieged by a greatly superior force of the enemy. Soon after, the news came that the enemy, under Gen. Price, was approaching with overwhelming numbers. The garrison at Lexington, under command of Col. Mulligan, could muster only 2,300 efficient men, and the approaching enemy numbered 25,000. From the 12th to the 20th of September, this little army did everything that brave men could do to repel the enemy, fighting continually and losing heavily, till it was compelled on that day to surrender, though just in the act of making one more effort at resistance.
The company was re-organized at Benton Barracks, and employed in the spring and carly summer of' 1862 in fighting small parties of the rebels in Southwest Missouri until July 17, when it was mustered out, and returned to Bloomington bearing the flag which the ladies had presented to it, having in its folds the marks of more than three hundred musket-balls. The reception of the company was enthusiastic. Capt. Mc- Nulta had received a wound in the breast, but was soon ready to enter the Ninety-fourth Illinois Regiment.
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EIGHTH REGIMENT.
McLean County furnished Company K in the Eighth Regiment of three months' volunteers, who re-enlisted at the expiration of their time-Col. Oglesby's regiment. Company officers : Captain, William H. Harvey ; First Lieutenant, Price Keith; Second Lieutenant, Abram Vandenburg.
The regiment was organized April 25, and spent its three months at Cairo. On July 25. it re-organized for three years. It remained at Cairo till October, then at Bird's Point, Mo., with occasional excursions, till February 2, 1862, thence it went up the Tennessee, drove the enemy back from Fort Henry on the 5th, and on the 11th was in the advance in attacking Fort Donelson. On the 15th it had a very severe engagement with the enemy who were trying to cut their way out of the fort, and sus- tained their assaults for more than three hours, losing 57 men killed and 191 wounded, 10 missing.
In March the regiment went to Pittsburg Landing, and lost in the terrible battles on the 6th and 7th of April in succession, its acting commander, Capt. Ashmore, and Capt. Harvey, killed instantly. The regiment did splendid service, losing 26 men killed, 95 wounded and 11 missing. The Eighth spent the rest of 1862 in Tennessee, in hard service, and in May, 1863, at the battle near Raymond, its splendid charge on the center of the enemy saved the day. It was at Champion Hill, at Jackson, Big Black River and at Vicksburg, distinguishing itself on several occasions. It was in nearly all the hard fights in Northern Mississippi and Tennessee in the latter part of 1863 and in 1864. January 1, 1865, it started for New Orleans, having previously vet- eranized, and went thence to Mobile. It had the usual experiences of a hard-fighting regiment among the forts around Mobile Bay, losing 10 men killed and 54 wounded in a triumphant charge on the works at Blakely. In May, 1865, the Eighth returned to New Orleans and was up the Red River and at Marshall, Texas, until fall. In May, 1866, it was discharged at Springfield.
TWENTIETH REGIMENT.
McLean County furnished Company C in the Twentieth Regiment, with John O. Pullen, Captain ; John W. Champion, First Lieutenant, and Andrew J. Taylor, Second Lieutenant. The Twentieth was mustered into service June 13, 1861, at Joliet, for three years. (Some stay longer.) It was at St. Louis Arsenal, at Bird's Point, Cape Girardeau and Fredericktown, having a victorious brush with Jeff Thompson. In 1862, it was at Fort Heury, in the three-days fight at Donelson. The regiment was in the battle at Shiloh, in April, and at Britton's Lane, in September. It was mostly in Northern Mississippi and Tennessee. Mustered out July 16, 1865, at Louisville, Ky.
TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT.
McLean County furnished Company B to the Twenty-fourth. Captain, George Heinrichs ; First Lieutenant, Julius Fritsch ; Second Lieutenant, Otto W. Block. The regiment was mustered into service July 8, 1861, at Chicago. It spent the summer in Missouri, and the next winter and summer in Kentucky and Tennessee. It was in the battle at Perryville, October 8, 1862, losing 25 killed, 77 wounded, 8 prisoners and 2 missing. It was employed variously the next year in Kentucky, and mustered out July 31, 1865, at Louisville. The Perryville battle was its only severe experience.
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THIRTY-NINTH REGIMENT.
McLean County furnished Companies B and H and part of I to the Thirty-ninth. Company B-Captain, Isaiah W. Wilmeth ; First Lieutenant, David F. Sellards ; See- ond Lieutenant, James Haldeman. Company H-Captain, Gasper S. F. Derieks ; First Lieutenant, Charles J. Wilder; Second Lieutenant, Charles Flickinger. Com- pany I-Captain, Hiram M. Phillips; First Lieutenant, Emory L. Waller ; Second Lieutenant, Albert W. Fellows.
This regiment was called the " Yates Phalanx," and was much favored by the Gov- ernor. Under command of Col. Austin Light, it reported at Camp Benton, St. Louis, about the middle of October, 1861, and was soon ordered to Williamsport, Md. For several months, the Thirty-ninth was employed on guard duty on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, having occasional collisions with the enemy, and suffering, in the winter, very severely from exposure and want of quarters. In March, it took a hand in the brilliant fight at Winchester, and went down the Shenandoah Valley, and was afterward at Har- rison's Landing and at the second battle of Malvern Hill.
The Thirty-ninth was in North and South Carolina in 1863, in active service, and was the first to mount the walls at the capture of Fort Wagner. It re-enlisted, met a splendid reception in Chicago, 450 strong, in January, 1864, and recruited to 750. It was in Gen. Butler's disastrous expedition up the James River, in May, 1864, and was at one time completely surrounded by the enemy, but cut its way out, with a loss of nearly two hundred men killed, wounded or missing. On the 2d of June, it was again in battle near the same place, and lost forty men, Lieut. Albert W. Fellows being killed and Lieut. Al. C. Sweetzer shot through both legs, losing one by amputation. On the 16th, 17th and 18th of June, the regiment fought day and night with Longstreet's Corps, near Petersburg, losing thirty-five men, Captain O. F. Rudd being one of them.
On the 16th of August, the Thirty-ninth was in the charge upon the works of the enemy at Deep Run, and lost 104 men-Capt. L. A. Baker, Capt. Chauncy Williams, and Lieuts. Frane, Lemons, Warner, Knapp and Butterfield being among them. On the 13th of October, it was in the charge upon the enemy's works on the Darlington road, seven miles from Richmond. Of the 250 men who went into the charge, 60 fell -Capt. Ileritage and Lieuts. C. J. Wilder and N. E. Davis among them, leaving First Lieut. James Hannum, one Adjutant and one Second Lieutenant the only officers re- maining. During the winter, the regiment was again recruited, and participated in the fear- ful charge on Fort Gregg, the 2d day of April, 1865. Surrounding the fort was a ditch six feet deep and twelve feet wide. Over this ditch, digging holes in the sides with swords and bayonets, so as to climb up and get over the parapet, and over slippery ground, did the 'Thirty-ninth mount, and engage in a desperate hand-to-hand fight for half an hour, before the fort and entire garrison were captured. It was the first regi- ment across the ditch and the first to plant its flag on the parapet, losing sixteen killed and forty-five wounded out of the 150 who went into the charge. Seven out of nine of its color-guard were shot down.
For its gallantry on this occasion, Maj. Gen. Gibbons, at the grand review of the corps, placed upon its regimental staff a magnificent brazen eagle, which had been cast for that purpose. The regiment was engaged in the pursuit and heading-off of Lee's army and was present at the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia. This
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regiment gave the Eastern people a splendid specimen of Illinois material for soldiers, and probably went through more suffering and fierce encounters with the enemy than any other one in which McLean County was represented. It was mustered out at Norfolk, Va., December 6, 1865.
SIXTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
Company H represented McLean County in the Sixty-second Regiment. Captain, Samuel Sherman; First Lieutenant, John Foley; Second Lieutenant, Robert B. Wil- son. This regiment-Colonel, James M. True-was organized April 10, 1862. It figured in Tennessee and in Arkansas, having but little experience with the enemy. Vet- eranized in 1864, and was mustered out at Little Rock, March 6, 1866.
SIXTY-THIRD REGIMENT.
Company D-Captain, John W. Champion; First Lieutenant, James Isaminger ; Second Lieutenant, Benjamin M. Tabler-was contributed by MeLean County to the Sixty-third Regiment-Colonel, Francis Mora. It was mustered in at Camp Dubois, April 10, 1862. Went to Cairo, then to Kentucky and Tennessee. It was at Vicks- burg, in May, 1863, and at the battle of Mission Ridge, in November. In 1864, it was in Tennessee and Northern Mississippi, at Atlanta, and went down to the sea at Savan- nah. It was in the busy scenes in the Carolinas; lost twenty-five men by an explosion at Columbia, S. C., and five men at Little Lynch's Creek. It was at Richmond May 10, and at the grand review at Washington, 24th May, 1865. Mustered out at Camp Butler, July 13, 1865.
SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT.
Company F-Captain, John W. Morris ; First Lieutenant, John R. Larrimore ; Second Lieutenant, Lewis Ijams ; and Company G, Captain, James P. Moore; First Lieutenant, Harvey C. De Mott ; Second Lieutenant, John H. Stout-were contributed by McLean County to the Sixty-eighth-Colonel, Elias Stuart, and George W. Lackey, Major. As this was a three-months regiment, the Adjutant General's Report gives no history. It was mustered in July 16, 1862, and mustered out September 26, 1862.
SEVENTIETH REGIMENT.
McLean County contributed Company H-Captain, James O. Donald, First Lieu- tenant, John A. Robinson ; Second Lieutenant, Albert Braxton, to the Seventieth Regi- ment-Colonel, O. T. Reeves; Major, Joseph H. Scibird. The regiment was mustered in July 23, 1862, and, as the Adjutant General's Report gives no date of mustering- out, it is supposed to be still in the service, though it was a three-months regiment.
EIGHTY-SECOND REGIMENT.
Company E-Captain, Robert Sender ; First Lieutenant, Rudolph Mueller ; Second Lieutenant, John Brech Celler-was, in part, contributed by McLean County-Colonel, Frederic Hecker. It was mustered in October 23, 1862. The regiment started for Washington City November 3, and was in Gen. Burnside's second movement against Fredericksburg, in January, 1863. It was engaged in the battle at Chancellorsville, losing 155 men, killed, wounded and missing. It was again heavily engaged at Gettys- burg, losing 112 men, killed, wounded and missing. In September, 1863, it was trans- ferred to the Department of the Cumberland, and was in the movements at Lookout Mountain. It was mustered out June 9, 1865, at Washington City.
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ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEENTHI REGIMENT.
McLean County contributed Company F, Captains, N. Bishop, Nicholas Gresch- wind, William P. Gardner ; First Lieutenants, John B. Tutt, Samnel R. Riggs, John A. Cochran ; Second Lieutenants, Edward R. Pratt, Jonathan C. Stansbury, John P. Lewis. These gentlemen were all, except one, from Cheney's Grove. The regiment was mustered in September 20, 1862, and mustered out June 7, 1865. The Adjutant General's Report gives no further history.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEENTH REGIMENT.
Company A-Captain, Samuel B. Kinsey ; First Lieutenant, Harrison W. Wood, Second Lieutenant, Dennis Kenyon-was made up in McLean County-Colonel, Risdon M. Moore. The regiment was mustered in Sept. 19, at Camp Butler, and went to Memphis in November, and remained there a year. In December, it pursucd Forrest, and lost three then killed. In February, 1863, it lost, in a skirmish, two killed and five wounded. It was up Red River, and assisted in the capture of Fort De Russey. In 1864, it was down in Louisiana, and skirmished its way back to Memphis. In the fall, it was all over Missouri, and back again in Tennessee, in December, chasing Hood. In January, 1865, it was again in New Orleans; and in March and April, at Spanish Fort and at Blakely, helping to capture those places. Thence it returned to Camp Butler, and was mustered out August 5, 1865.
SCATTERINGS.
Besides the regiments and companies noticed heretofore, McLean County furnished many men who enlisted in other regiments and in other States-some in Eastern regi- ments. We will gather up a few of these scatterings : James A. Landon, from Le Roy, Captain Company B in the One Hundred and Fifty-third Illinois Infantry. Joseph Pitman, Blue Mound, Captain Company G; Troy Moore, Blue Mound, Captain Com- pany E; Alexander H. Brown, Belleflower, Second Lieutenant, and Jesse D. De Witt, Bloomington, First Lieutenant, Company C; William Harness, Lexington, and Albert W. Collins, Mount Hope, Second Lieutenants, De Witt C. Mears, Chenoa, First Lieu- tenant, and Isaac P. Strayer, Bloomington, Captain, Company B, and John H. Nale, Blue Mound, Major, in the One Hundred and Fifty-second Illinois Infantry. Captains John H. Stout and Clarence D. Perry ; First Lieutenant Augustus W. Rodgers; and Albert L. Platt, Second Lieutenant, Company A, Bloomington ; Captain William B. Lawrence, Bloomington ; First Lieutenant William Weaver, Oldtown; and Second Lieutenant William Van Gundy, Padua, Company B, in the One IIundred and Fiftieth Illinois Regiment-George W. Kuner, Oldtown, Colonel; Major Isaiah W. Wilmeth, Bloomington : Robert W. McMahon, Chenoa, Surgeon ; and Henry Kulilman, Second Lieutenant, Bloomington, Company G, of the One Hundred and Forty-sixth Illinois Infantry.
Colonel George W. Lackey ; Adjutant John W. Morris; Chaplain John C. Hanna ; First Lieutenant Marmontell B. Geter, Company B, all of Bloomington. Sec- ond Lieutenant, Company D, James Palmer, Mount Hope; Captain Paphiras B. Keyes, and Jonah S. Scovel, First Lieutenant, Company I; James P. Moore, Captain, and, First Lieutenant Clarence D. Perry, Company K, all from Bloomington, of the One Hundred and Forty-fifth Illinois Infantry. Henry W. Boyd, First Assistant Sur- geon, One Hundred and Forty-fourth Illinois Infantry.
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Second Lieutenant John P. McKnight, Chenoa, Company G, One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois Infantry. Allen Ellsworth, Bloomington, First Lieutenant Com- pany I, One Hundred and Eighteenth Illinois Infantry.
CAVALRY.
We have already spoken of the First Cavalry Regiment. Of the officers of that regiment, Bloomington furnished, of Company A, John McNulta, Captain, afterward Colonel of Ninety-fourth Illinois Infantry ; First Lieutenant, George F. Tannatt, afterward killed in Virginia; and Second Lieutenant, James B. Dent, afterward Major of the Fourteenth Illinois Cavalry.
Lieut. Col. Ilarvey Hogg, of the Second Cavalry Regiment, was from Bloom- ington, and was killed in the battle of Bolivar, Tenn., August 30, 1862. Col. Hogg was as brave a man as ever fell in defense of the rights of the human race. If it were admissible to speak of the faults of the noble dead, one could say that his bravery bordered upon temerity. In private life, he was a model gentleman in manners and sentiments.
THIRD CAVALRY.
Bloomington furnished the following officers of Company I in the Third Illinois Cavalry : Captains, James Nicolls and Samuel F. Dolloff; First Lieutenants, Samuel F. Dolloff and John Dunean ; Second Lieutenants, Edward O. Rowley, John Paul and Francis Cullum.
The Third Cavalry was organized at Camp Butler in August, 1861, by Col. E. A. Carr. It operated in Missouri until the next summer, on guard duty, then went over into Arkansas and returned in December, and six of the companies went down to Vicksburg. It had lost, in an all-day engagement on the 7th of March, ten men killed and forty wounded. One Captain and five men were drowned in crossing the White River May 25. On the 7th of June, Capt. Sparks, with sixty-six men, eut his way through a greatly superior number of the enemy, losing four wounded and four prisoners. The regiment did good service in Tennessee, around and below Vicksburg, participating in several engagements. Mustered out October 13, 1865.
FOURTH CAVALRY.
Bloomingtou furnished to the Fourth Cavalry Regiment Lieut. Col. William Mccullough, Surgeon Hiram C. Luce, Chaplain Alfred Eddy, First Lieut. Ruthven W. Pike, and Second Lieut. David Quigg, of Company L, and Le Roy sent Capt. John M. Longstreth and Second Lieut. Robert D. Taylor, of the same company. Colonel Mccullough was killed in battle near Coffeeville, Miss., December 6, 1862, being suddenly set upon by a greatly superior force. It is perhaps enough to say that he left no braver man behind him. Mild and gentlemanly by nature, when aroused he was a terror to evil-doers, and a stranger to personal fear. The regiment was afterward re-organized and consolidated.
FIFTH CAVALRY.
McLean County furnished the following officers to the Fifth Cavalry : To Company C-Captains, William P. Withers, Francis A. Wheelock and Clarendon W. Wheelock ; First Lieutenants, James Depew and Alcinous Y. Davidson; Second Lieutenants, James A. Lawrence, Thaddeus B. Packard and Joseph Smith; and to Company D, Alonzo G. Payne, Captain.
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The Fifth Regiment was mustered into service in November, 1861, Hall Wilson' Colonel. In February, 1862, it passed over into Missouri, and soon moved on to Doni- phan, capturing a camp of the enemy, killing three and taking seven prisoners. In June, it started for the Mississippi, and arrived at Helena July 13. On October 22, the enemy attacked one of their forage trains, killing one, wounding six, and capturing seventy-eight men and a Lieutenant. For the next year, sometimes single, sometimes with other regiments, the Fifth was employed in the active scenes then passing all over Mississippi, centering on Vicksburg. In 1865, it was in active and efficient service in Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee, having several sharp and success- ful encounters with the enemy. It was mustered out October 27, 1865.
Besides these contributions, there are several cases of individuals who have served in other regiments. Samuel R. Bush, of Chenoa, was First Lieutenant in Co. D of the Eleventh Cavalry. Henry M. Stahl, of Bloomington, was Adjutant in the Twelfth. John A. Edwards, of Bloomington, was First Lieutenant of Company C in the Fourteenth. Lewis J. Ijams, of Bloomington, was Captain of Co. L in the Sixteenth.
EIGHTH MISSOURI INFANTRY.
MeLean County furnished to the Eighth Missouri Infantry Company D, Capt. Giles A. Smith ; First Lieutenant, John White; Second Lieutenant, Frederick Clapp. After Capt. Smith was promoted, Capt. Potts was killed at Arkansas Post, and Johu D. Coles was promoted from the ranks to Captain and Ostron to First Lieutenant, Mr. White having gone as Captain to another company and Mr. Clapp resigned. The reg- iment was mustered in on the 13th of June, 1861, at St. Louis Arsenal. It remained in Missouri the rest of 1861 ; spent the winter of 1862, in Kentucky, and in the sum- mer of that year it was at Fort Henry, Donelson and Shiloh, taking an active part in them all. It was also at the siege of Corinth, and, in 1863, was at Vicksburg, with all that that implies ; afterward, at Memphis, Chattanooga and at Mission Ridge. The regi- ment spent the winter of 1864 in Alabama. In the spring, it was again in Memphis, and moved with the army down into Georgia and was in action on the way in the sev- eral battles as far as Atlanta. On the 13th of June, the time of its enlistment having expired, the company returned home, but the regiment being veteranized went on down to the sea and around through the Carolinas to Washington, with Sherman's army.
Capt. Smith was promoted to Colonel May 8, 1862; to Brigadier General in the winter of 1863, and Brevet Major General in 1864, at Atlanta, Ga., for his gal- lant conduct in battle in front of that city. It has been the fortune of but very few men to win the hearts of his soldiers, the esteem of his fellow-officers and the confidence of his superiors, so rapidly and so meritoriously as did Gen. Smith. On sev- eral occasions, he showed that Illinois had in her volunteer service no better officer of his rank than Gen. Giles A. Smith. He never failed in duty, never disappointed expectation, and often surpassed both.
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