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Dr. George E. Fulton, who is still practicing at that place and is president of the society of today, is a native of the county, his father locating in Jefferson Township in 1840. He first located at Murray, but has practiced at the county seat since 1882. Doctor Fulton has served in the State Legislature and as health officer of the county. His brother, Dr. J. C. Fulton, is a well known member of the pro- fession. Among the leaders of long and substantial standing may also be mentioned Dr. L. A. Spaulding, who also commenced to practice at Bluffton in 1882; Dr. Isaac N. Hatfield, secretary-treasurer of the present Wells County Medical Society, who came from Kansas in 1887 to throw his lot with the Bluffton people; Dr. E. W. Dyer, Dr. J. W. MeKinney, Dr. A. W. Brown, Dr. Louis Severin, Dr. C. H. Mead and Dr. Ray E. DeWeese. The last named, however, is now a resident of Hartford City.
The present Wells County Medical Society comprises twenty-three members; only four physicians in the county have not joined the or- ganization. Regular meetings of the society are scheduled to be held on the first and third Tuesday evenings of each month, but on ac- count of the war, which absorbed so much time and energy of its members, its gatherings have virtually become subject to call only.
CHAPTER XX
WAR PREPARATION
FIRST CIVIL WAR VOLUNTEERS-THE DRAFTS IN WELLS COUNTY-FI- NANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS-REPRESENTATION IN MEN-LIEUT .- COL. WILLIAM SWAIM-LAST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR-MAJ. PETER STUDABAKER-THE HOME GUARDS-OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WHO DIED IN THE CIVIL WAR-SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812-THE LEW DAILEY POST OF BLUFFTON-REUNION OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT-THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR-REGIMENTAL OFFICERS -COMPANIES E AND F, ONE HUNDRED SIXTIETH VOLUNTEER IN- FANTRY-IN THE WAR AGAINST GERMANY, ET AL .- CAPTAIN DUNN AND COMPANY A-VOLUNTEERS AND DRAFTED MEN.
Wells is no exception to any other county or section of the state which has ever had anything to do with an American war; it has risen to the height of the occasion, whatever sacrifice was demanded in vindication of individual conscience and the adjudged rights de- pending npon its exercise. From the period of the Civil war of 1861-65 to the World war of 1914 -- , its men and women, its boys and girls, have never faltered in their stanch support of what they believed to be right; and the greatest tribute which can be paid to the patriotism. of Wells County is to simply say that it has the American spirit.
FIRST CIVIL WAR VOLUNTEERS
Following the day of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, the fol- lowing sixteen men of Wells County loaded themselves into wagons at Bluffton and started for Fort Wayne: W. W. Angel, Samuel M. Karns, Dwight Klinck, Samuel D. Silver, Phillip W. Silver, Jacob V. Kenagy, John T. Cartwright, James A. Starbuck, George M. Burwell, Andrew J. Barlow, Thomas J. Barlow, James A. Rounds, John C. Campbell, Isaac H. Lefever, Robert J. Rogers and Isaac P. Wilming- ton. At the same time Uriah Todd, another resident of the county, enlisted in Ohio.
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Throughout the war, there was no "slacking" on the part of Wells County men. A typical section was known as the Glass School distriet, two miles west of Ossian, which, with its twenty-two fam- ilies, sent fifty soldiers to the Civil war.
THE DRAFTS IN WELLS COUNTY
The draft was popular with many citizens who would not have waited for its demands to join the ranks, but who believed that it was the fairest way to levy upon the man power of the nation; and their views have since been enthusiastically adopted by the most demo- cratie nation of the world. In October, 1862, the following were drafted from the different townships of the county: Jackson, 18; Chester, 19; Liberty, 2; Rock Creek, 6; Union, 17; Nottingham, 28; Harrison, 19. Total, 109. Jefferson and Lancaster, having furnished their full quotas, through their volunteers, escaped altogether.
The only other draft which operated in Wells County was that of 1864, in which eleven men altogether were selected. There was no open resistance to the draft, or any other military measure enforced during the war, although there undoubtedly existed in the county treasonable organizations known as the Knights of the Golden Circle, composed of sympathizers with the Confederate cause.
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
In these days of millions and billions raised for the support of the "allies" and their "associate," the United States, the financial statisties representing the contributions of Wells County to the main- tenance of the Union, do not appear especially imposing, but consider- ing the population of the county (about 11,000) and the comparative wealth of the United States at that time, the contributions of money were generous indeed. During the Civil war the county paid $100,000 in bounties and the townships, $26,650; while for the relief of soldiers' families, the county contributed $1,424, and the townships, $10,000. Grand total for bounties and relief, $138,074. Adams County, with a population of about 9,000, contributed nearly $83,000. If anything, therefore, Wells "had it" a little on its twin county.
REPRESENTATION IN MEN
Wells County was represented in a number of regimental units, sneh as the Twelfth, Twenty-second, Thirtieth, Thirty-fourth, Forty-
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seventh, Seventy-fifth, Eighty-ninth, One Hundred and First, One Hundred and Thirtieth, One Hundred and Thirty-seventh, One Hun- dred and Thirty-eighth and One Hundred and Fifty-third Infantry and the Eleventh and Thirteenth Cavalry.
The Twelfth was a one-year regiment, was accepted for service in May, 1861, and after its term had expired in connection with the Army of the Shenandoah, it veteranized for three years, joined Sher- man's grand army, the fortunes of which it followed until mustered out in June, 1865, only 270 strong. During its military life it was commanded by Cols. John M. Wallace and William H. Link.
In July, 1861, the Twenty-second was organized at Madison, In- diana, with Jefferson C. Davis, then a captain in the regular army, as colonel. It was a three years' regiment and, after serving in Southern Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee, it also was absorbed by Sherman's command, and had the honor of enduring to the last.
The Thirtieth Regiment of Volunteer Infantry went into service during September, 1861, marched, skirmished and fought in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Texas, and remained in the last named state, engaged in guard duty, until the Confederacy had long been a govern- ment of the past. Its first colonel, Sion S. Bass, died at Paducah, Kentucky, as the result of a severe wound, and he was succeeded by Joseph B. Dodge.
The record of the Thirty-fourth was much the same. Its first active engagement was at New Madrid, Missouri, in March, 1861; it played a leading part in the capture of Island No. 10, and in May, 1863, was in the engagement at Port Gibson, and in the battle of Champion Hills, losing heavily in both. Among those severely wounded in the latter action was Lient .- Col. William Swaim, who died as the result of his injuries on the 17th of June. His son, James, was a member of Company A, of the Thirty-fourth, and served until his muster- out at Brownsville, Texas, February 4, 1866.
LIEUT .- COL. WILLIAM SWAIM
Lieutenant-Colonel Swaim was a carriage manufacturer in New Jersey before he bought a farm near Ossian in 1857. He was en- gaged in its cultivation and improvement when the Civil war aroused him. He raised Company A from Ossian, Murray and Bluffton volun- teers, and when the Thirty-fourth was organized he was elected its captain. In February, 1862, he was promoted to be major of the regi- ment and June 15th, a year before his death, was advanced to the lieutenant-colonelcy. He was leading the regiment at Champion Hills,
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May 16, 1863, when he received his death wound. He died from its effects on the 17th of the following month, while aboard a steamboat bound for the North. His remains were buried at Ossian cemetery, and at the head of his grave stands a beautiful monument erected to his memory by the officers of his regiment. On the 30th of June, succeeding Colonel Swaim's death two weeks before, his fellow officers had gathered to pass resolutions expressive of their sense of loss on his death. Post No. 169 of Ossian was well named in his honor.
James Swaim, the son mentioned above, resumed farming when discharged from the service, and subsequently became a justice of the peace, school trustee and otherwise prominent in local public af- fairs. He is also an old and leading Mason; an honored citizen of Ossian, now in his seventy-third year.
LAST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR
After the death of Colonel Swaim the Thirty-fourth Regiment participated in the siege of Vicksburg; was in the Banks expedition ; went home on a veteran's furlough and returned to Texas to fight the last battle of the Civil war. This occurred May 12-13, 1865, at Pal- metto Ranche, adjoining the old battlefield of Palo Alto, near the mouth of the Rio Grande. With a battery of six field pieces, 250 of the regiment drove 500 of the enemy mounted, a distance of three miles in three hours. The colonel, David Bransom, having received news of the surrender of Kirby Smith, the last of the Confederate leaders to hold out in the older states, gave the order to cease firing, as he considered the Civil war closed. Not so the enemy ; as he got his gun in position and poured such a destructive fire into the ranks of the Thirty-fourth as to cause a general withdrawal. Colonel Bran- som ordered Companies B and E to remain toward the front as skirmishers to cover the retreat, but they were soon surrounded and forced to surrender. The Thirty-fourth lost in killed, wounded and captured, during this historic engagement, eighty-four men. Thus the last battle of the Civil war was a virtual defeat for Union troops. It was witnessed by hundreds of men perched in the rigging of eighty men-of-war and other shipping moored at the mouth of the Rio Grande, as the hazy sun set in a fading glamour behind the sandy hills on the western bank of the great river.
After this last battle of the Civil war, the Thirty-fourth was or- dered to various places in Texas and, as stated, was mustered out in February, 1866. Besides Lieutenant-Colonel Swaim, the following of- ficers were credited to Wells County : Maj. John L. Wilson, Maj.
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HIarrison L. Deam, Capts. William Wilmington and John Phipps, and Lieuts. George Harter and Andrew C. Fulton. Three Harter broth- ers served from Wells County. The lieutenant was discharged for disability in 1864. Another brother, Andrew, who enlisted in Com- pany K, Seventy-fifth Regiment, was shot at Chickamauga, in Septem- ber, 1863, and Thomas, who took Andrew's place, died of disease.
Although the Forty-seventh Regiment was a mixed command- that is, no county or counties had a great preponderance of men in the ranks-a few volunteers went from Wells County and a full com-
OLD FLAG OF THE THIRTY-FOURTH REGIMENT
pany was raised in Adams. All the men were raised in the Eleventh Congressional District. It was organized in the fall of 1862 and served in the southwest; participated in the engagements at New Madrid, Fort Pillow, Champion Hills and Vicksburg, in Bank's Red River expedition and before Mobile.
The Seventy-fifth Infantry, also organized in the Eleventh Con- gressional District, was mustered into service in August, 1862, with John U. Pettit as colonel and a force of more than 1,000 men. With the Eighty-seventh and One Hundred and Thirty-first regiments, it composed the Indiana Brigade. It was the first to enter Tullahoma in the following June, and in September it met with considerable losses
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at Chickamauga. Then followed Missionary Ridge, the siege of At- lanta, the march of Sherman to the sea, the progress through the Caro- linas and the grand review at Washington. Many men from Wells County were in the Seventy-fifth, among whom were Capt. Sandford R. Karns and Lieut. James A. Starbuck.
There were fewer men in the Eighty-ninth, but Adams County was strongly represented, furnishing three full companies. It was still another command raised in the patriotie Eleventh, and was mustered into the Union service in August, 1862. The Eighty-ninth participated in the operations around Memphis and Vieksburg, in Northern Mississippi and in pursuit of Price through Missouri and of Hood through Tennessee. It was in at the fall of Mobile, and was finally mustered out of the service at that point in July, 1865.
The One IInndred and First Indiana Infantry claimed more of Wells County men than any other regiment. In it were Major Peter Studabaker, Dr. C. T. Melsheimer (assistant surgeon), Capt. Andrew J. Barlow, Capt. George Lindsey, Lieut. William Miller and Lient. Simon Krewsen.
MAJOR PETER STUDABAKER
Major Studabaker was serving as county treasurer at Bluffton when the war broke out and was active in organizing Company B, of which he was commissioned captain in August, 1862. In June of the following year he was promoted to be major. The regiment saw much active service and was in most of the battles under General Thomas in the Fourteenth Army Corps. In the battle of Chickamauga it was the last to leave the field. At the battle of Kenesaw Mountain Major Studabaker was wounded in the left foot, but while in the service never lost a day from sickness or any other cause. After the war he was mnstered out with his men in June, 1865, and returned to his farming, banking and public interests, fulfilling the full expectations of those who had previously shown their confidenee in his stalwart abilities.
The One Hundred and Thirtieth Indiana Infantry, another regi- mental unit drawn from the Eleventh Congressional District, had not a few representatives from Wells County who did their part in repell- ing the furious Confederate charge at Resaca. They were also engaged in the battles at Pine and Kenesaw mountains, the siege of Atlanta, at Jonesboro and in the campaigns waged against Hood's forces near Nashville. Finally, the regiment joined Sherman's army at Golds- boro, and was mustered out of service in December, 1865, with 27 officers and 540 men. The officers from Wells County who served in Vol. 1-24
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his regiment were Captains William H. Covert and James A. Millikin and Lieut. John S. Campbell.
The One Hundred and Thirty-seventh Regiment, which had a number of soldiers from Wells County in it, was mustered into the service in May, 1864, for one hundred days. Under Edward J. Robin- son, of North Madison, as colonel, it exceeded its term, doing duty along the lines of the railroads which supported Sherman in his advance upon Atlanta.
The One Hundred and Thirty-eighth Infantry, under Col. James H. Shannon, of LaPorte, was mustered in upon the same date as the preceding and the nature of its service was similar.
The One Hundred and Fifty-third Infantry contained a full com- pany of volunteers from Wells County-Company E of which Ben- jamin F. Wiley, of Bluffton, was captain ; John M. Henry, of Ossian, first lieutenant, and Marvin W. Bennett, of the same place, second lieutenant. It was a one-year regiment and left Indianapolis for the front in March, 1865, being mustered out in the following September after considerable skirmishing with the enemy and guard duty at Louisville.
A number of men from Wells County joined both the Eleventh and the Thirteenth Cavalry regiments. The Eleventh, known numerically as the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Indiana Regiment, was fully organized at Indianapolis, in March, 1864, and the command given to Robert R. Stewart, formerly lieutenant colonel of the Second Cavalry. It saw service in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi and Kansas.
The Thirteenth, the last cavalry organization to be raised in the state, was the One Hundred and Thirty-first Regiment of Volunteers. When fully organized in April, 1864, Gilbert M. L. Johnson was its colonel. Both regiments served a portion of the time as cavalry and a part of their term as dismounted infantry. The last eight months of the military life of the Thirteenth, however, was spent as cavalry, pure and simple. It was mustered out at Vicksburg in November, 1865.
THE HOME GUARDS
Besides the commands which went to the front with their various quotas of Wells County men, the citizens at home, whose age or other circumstances prevented them from accepting active military service, formed organizations to meet any emergencies which might arise call- ing for the protection of their firesides and families. Fortunately they were not called out for such service, but at least two bodies of Home Guards were ready and thus officered: Harrison Guards-captain,
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Herod T. True, and first lieutenant, Picket P. Connett, of Bluffton ; Jefferson Guards-captain, James Gorrell, and first lieutenant, John W. Todd, of Ossian.
OFFICERS AND PRIVATES WHO DIED IN THE CIVIL WAR
In 1885 the Bluffton Banner compiled a list of the Civil war sol- diers from Wells County who were killed in action, or who died as a result of wounds received and disease contracted during that period. The officers who gave their lives: Lieut .- Col. William Swain, Thirty- fourth Infantry, buried at Ossian: First Lieut. J. Sharpe Wisner, Company A, Forty-seventh Infantry, Bluffton; Second Lieut. John B. Louis, Company A, Forty-seventh Infantry, Bluffton; First Lieut. Lewis W. Dailey, Company I, Twenty-second Infantry, Murray ; Sec- ond Lieut. Uriah Todd, Company K, Seventy-fifth Infantry, Prospect ; Capt. Sanford R. Karns, Company K, Seventy-fifth Infantry, Bluff- ton ; First Lieut. Simon Krewson, Company G, One Hundred and First Infantry, Prospeet ; Second Lieut. Abe S. Masterson, Company B, One Hundred and First Infantry, Six Mile; Capt. James A. Milli- kin, Company F, One Hundred and Thirtieth Infantry, Ossian. Total, 9 officers.
Casualties among the privates of the different commands: Thir- teenth Regiment, 4; Thirty-fourth, 35; Forty-seventh, 37; Seventy- fifth, 48; One Hundred and First, 53; One Hundred and Thirtieth, 14; scattering commands, 34. Total of officers and privates, 234.
SOLDIERS OF THE WAR OF 1812
In addition to the foregoing Civil war soldiers whose bodies lie in Wells County cemeteries, are the remains of the following who served in the War of 1812: James Jackson (Mendenhall Cemetery), Henry Mossburg (Mossburg Cemetery ), Rural Wright, Thomas Deaver, Wil- liam Griffey, David Miller and William Beasley.
THE LEW DAILEY POST OF BLUFFTON
Lew Dailey Post No. 33, G. A. R., of Bluffton, was named in honor of Lewis W. Dailey, brother of Judge Joseph S. Dailey, who was only nineteen years of age when he died as first lieutenant of Company I, Twenty-second Infantry. Lieutenant Dailey was the first Wells County soldier to be killed in the Civil war. He is buried at Murray near the old family homestead in Lancaster Township. The Post was
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organized October 6, 1881, by Gen. James R. Carnahan, mustering officer, of Indianapolis, with the following charter members: Capt. E. Y. Sturgis, commander; William B. Miller, senior vice commander ; William II. Cover, junior vice commander : Levi L. Martz, quarter- master ; Dr. Andrew J. Gorrell, surgeon; Jacob J. Todd, chaplain ; George W. Louis, officer of the day; Samuel M. Karnes, officer of the guard; F. N. Kellogg, adjutant : James W. Spake, William S. Knapp, Jacob K. Oman, M. M. Justus, Thomas Sturgis, Curtis Burgan, Wil- liam T. Me Afee, Hiram E. Grave, John North, William L. Swan, II. Stejhamper, C. J. Kline and J. V. Kenagy. The commanders of the Lew Dailey Post, in succession, have been as follows: E. Y. Sturgis, 1882; James B. Plessinger, 1883-84; Jacob K. Oman, 1885; Henry Stejhamper, 1886; Benjamin F. Fry, 1887-88; W. H. Stevenson, 1889; John Wasson, 1890; James B. Plessinger, 1891; Joseph L. Myers, 1892: Levi L. Martz, 1893; William J. MeAfee and John H. Vose, 1894: J. J. Todd, 1895; C. J. Kline, 1896; O. P. Koontz, 1897; M1. Morquart, 1898: H. Stejhamper, 1899; M. M. Justus, 1900; C. Warner, 1901; M. M. Justus, 1902; W. W. Angell, 1903; M. M. Justus, 1904-06; James Chaddock, 1907: Jacob V. Kenagy, 1908: H. C. Meliek, 1909; John Wisner, Jr., 1910: J. C. Fulton, 1911; E. M. Rinear, 1912; James Worster, 1913; Benjamin F. Plessinger, 1916; John Klein- knight, 1917. Of the foregoing Messrs. James B. Plessinger, John Wasson, J. J. Todd, C. J. Kline, O. P. Koontz, James Chaddock, Jacob V. Kenagy, John Wisner, Jr., E. M. Rinear, and James Worster are deceased, and up to October 24, 1917, the Post had buried 176 of its comrades.
REUNION OF THE FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT
A noteworthy reunion of Civil war veterans from the old Eleventh Congressional District who had joined the Forty-seventh Regiment was held in Bluffton in August, 1917. Sixty-three members chiefly resi- dents of Whitley, Huntington, Wabash and Adams and Wells coun- ties, assembled in the little court room on the second floor of the court- house, where the arriving veterans presented their credentials and were presented with badges. The forenoon was given over to a heart reunion of "vets." and their families, and at noon a dinner was served by the local Woman's Relief Corps. Capt. William Henley was chosen president of the organization which is to have charge of the thirty-sixth reunion at Wabash in 1918, and T. B. Ayres, of Hunting- ton, was named as secretary. Thus closed the thirty-fifth reunion of the survivors of the Forty-seventh.
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THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR
The Wells County companies which were identified with the Spanish-American war were originally E and F, of the Fourth Regi- ment, Indiana National Guard. Company E was organized at Bluff- ton on December 12, 1890, and Company F at Ossian, May 3, 1897. For service in the Spanish American war, the Fourth National Guard of Indiana became the One Ilundred and Sixtieth Volunteer Infantry, and was composed of companies also from Marion, Decatur, Lafayette, Wabash, Columbia City, Warsaw, Tipton, Huntington, Anderson and Logansport.
REGIMENTAL OFFICERS
The regimental officers from Wells County comprised the follow- ing: Lieut .- Col. William L. Kiger, Bluffton ; Quartermaster Ransom Allen, Ossian ; Battalion Adjutant Levi L. Martz, Quartermaster Ser- geant D. C. C. Kocher and Commissary Sergeant S. E. Hitchcock, all of Bluffton. Colonel Kiger had joined Company E as captain in December, 1890; was promoted to be major in April, 1892, and lieu- tenant colonel of the Fourth Regiment, Indiana National Guard, in August, 1895. He is still a resident of Bluffton, in active business. Quartermaster Ransom was a Civil war veteran, having served in Company A, Thirtieth Indiana Volunteer Infantry, the later portion of his service as corporal. In July, 1896, he was appointed quarter- master of the Fourth Indiana National Guard. Adjutant Martz, who still resides at Bluffton, had also seen varied service in the Civil war, in connection with the Thirty-fourth Indiana Volunteer Infan- try. He had been principal musician of his company (A), sergeant and quartermaster, and was not mustered out until February, 1866. Adjutant Martz entered the Fourth Regiment of the National Guard as quartermaster sergeant in 1891 and was appointed adjutant of the second battalion in May, 1892, holding that position when mustered into the service of the United States for the war with Spain.
COMPANIES E AND F, ONE HUNDRED SIXTIETH VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
The Bluffton organization, Company E, arrived at Camp Mount, Georgia, with other units of the regiment, April 26, 1898, when the following officers were enrolled : Captain, Charles F. Brunn, Bluffton ; first lieutenant, Charles Pugh, Bluffton ; second lieutenant, Henry Johnson, Bluffton ; first sergeant, H. Clyde Brown, Bluffton ; quarter-
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master sergeant, Lester A. Burgan, Bluffton; sergeants, Jacob Britt, Bluffton, and Jacob M. Kress, Fort Wayne; John W. McCormick and Samuel Pence, Bluffton ; corporals, Orlando Bennett and Reuben Ben- nett, William G. Jones, N. Frank Smith, Dillon Myers and Fred J. Tangemann, all of Bluffton; musicians, Carl T. Hathaway and Wil- liam Stewart, of Warsaw; artificer, John A. Masterson, Bluffton; wagoner, George W. Hart, Poneto.
Second Lieutenant Johnson and Sergeant Clyde succeeded Captain Brunn in command of the company, and Lester A. Burgan followed
ALF, STOUT DRUSGISY
COMPANY E LEAVING BLUFFTON
Charles Pugh as first lieutenant, serving until the muster-out of the regiment April 25, 1899. Corp. Fred J. Tangemann succeeded Henry Johnson as second lieutenant in January, 1899, the latter having been commissioned captain a short time before. Of the 90 men in the ranks of Company E. 71 were from Bluffton, 4 from Montpelier, 4 from Pennville, 2 from Petroleum, 2 from Warren, and scattering singles from Craigville, Vera Cruz, 'Murray, Poneto, Elwood, Fiat and Do- mestic.
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