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The advance of this army up the James River began on the 4th of May, 1864. The One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment, going by transport, arrived and landed with the rest of the troops at Bermuda Hundred. Skirmishes with the enemy occurred at Clover Hill on the 8th and at Swift Creek on the 12th. Early in the morning of the 16th, during a heavy fog, a sudden and sharp attack was made upon our forces in front of Drury's Bluff by the Confederates under Beauregard. The Union troops fought bravely and obtained some advantage, but Butler, evidently under a misapprehension, ordered a retreat. Another skirmish in which the One Hundred and Forty- eighth took part oc- curred on the 26th at Port Walthall Junction. The whole army re-
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turned to its entrenchments at Bermuda Hundred, from which position no offensive movements in the direction desired could possibly be at- tempted. As General Grant in his official report says : "This army, while here, though in a position of great security, was as completely shut off from further operations against Richmond as if it had been in a bottle strongly corked. It required but a comparatively small force of the enemy to hold it there."
The position at Bermuda Hundred could, on the other hand, in Gen- eral Grant's opinion, be held by a less force than Butler had under him; therefore on the 24th of May the Eighteenth Corps, in which was in- cluded the One Hundred and Forty eighth Regiment, was ordered to join the Army of the Potomac. The corps commander at that time was Gen. W. F. Smith, familiarly known as " Baldy " Smith, and who had formerly commanded a brigade of which the Thirty-third New York Volunteers had formed a part. The One Hundred and Forty-eighth joined the Army of the Potomac by way of the White House, to which place it arrived by transport, passing down the James and up the York Rivers. On the 3d of June the regiment participated in the battle of Cold Harbor. In the sanguinary contest in front of Petersburg a prom- inent part was taken by the One Hundred and Forty-eight, particularly in the fight at Rowlett's House on the 15th. At the mine explosion in the morning of July 30th the regiment with its division was ordered forward to the support of the attacking column that charged into the crater. On the 29th of September the very strong fortifications and en- trenchments below Chapin's Farm, on the north side of the James and known as Fort Harrison, were carried in an attack by the Eighteenth Corps led by Gen. E. O. C. Ord. The regiment distinguished itself in this action and proved to all that its designation as " the gallant One Hundred and Forty-eighth " was well deserved. In the assault on Fort Gillmore, however, on the same day, a repulse followed. At the battle of Fair Oaks, fought October 27th, the regiment suffered severely in killed and wounded. In the beginning of November the larger part of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment was detailed with other forces to accompany General Butler to New York city for the purpose of keeping order on election day, as it was anticipated that a riot would take place on that occasion.
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On the 2d of April, 1865, occurred the decisive conflict (participated in by the One Hundred and Forty-eighth) which resulted in the final defeat of Lee and the evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond. The next morning, "amid blazing roofs and failing walls, smoke and ashes, and the deafening reports of explosions," the soldiers of the Union en- tered the latter city in triumph. The very remarkable scene which was on that morning presented is thus described by E. A. Pollard, the South- ern historian :
" By 10 o'clock, when several thousand of the [Federal] enemy had marched into the city, the scene had become fearfully sublime. It was a scene in which the horrors of a great conflagration struggled for the forepart of the picture, while the grand army, brilliant with steel and banners, breaking into the circle of fire with passionate cheers, and the crash of triumphant martial music, dazzled the spectator and confounded his imagination. The flames had already spread over the chief business portion of the city, brands were flying toward the capitol, and it seemed at one time as if the whole of Richmond would be destroyed-that the whole wicked city would rush skyward in a pyramid of fire. A change in the wind, however, drove back the fire from the high plateau above Franklin street, where, if the flames had once lodged, they would soon have traversed the length and breadth of the city. All that was terrible in sounds was added to all that was terrible in sights. While glittering regiments carried their strong lines of steel through the smoke; while smoke-masked robbers fought for their plunder ; while the lower streets appeared as a great pit of fire, the crater of destruc- tion ; while alarmed citizens who had left their property a ruin or a spoil found a brief repose on the sward of the Capitol Square, whose emerald green was already strewn with brands-the seeds of fire that the merci- less wind had sown to the very door of the capitol ; while the length- ening arms of the conflagration appeared to almost reach around those who had fled to the picturesque hill for a breath of fresh air,-sounds as terrible, and more various than those of battle, assailed the ear and smote the already overtaxed imagination. There were shells at the Confed- erated arsenal exposed to the fire, from the rapid progress of which they could no longer be rescued, and for hours the explosion of these tore the air and shook the houses in their vicinity. Crowds of negroes
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roamed through the streets, their wild, coarse voices raised in hymns of jubilation, thanking God for their freedom, and a few steps farther might be heard the blasphemous shouts of those who fought with the red- handed fire for their prey." 1
The regiment on April 2d took part in the charge by which Fort Gregg, south of Petersburg, was captured, and in the engagement on the 6th at Rice's Station. On the 9th of April Lee surrendered at. Ap- pomattox Court House. While in Richmond after the surrender the One Hundred and Forty-eighth had the pleasure of greeting (May 7th) the One Hundred and Twenty-sixth New York Volunteers, in which regiment a large proportion of the members were from the county of Yates. The One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment was mustered out at Richmond on the 20th of June. The veterans who had com- posed the command then went by transport to Baltimore, where they took their departure for their several homes, having performed for their country a service that will ever stand high in public estimation.
The field and staff officers of the One Hundred and Forty-eighth Regiment at the time it was mustered out were as follows :
Officers .-- Colonel, John B. Murray, Seneca Falls; lieutenant- colonel, Fred L. Man- ning, Seneca Falls; major, John Cooley, Penn Yan ; adjutant, D. C. Wilber, Seneca Falls ; quartermaster, Charles J. Martin, Waterloo ; surgeon, C. H. Carpenter, Seneca Falls; chaplain, Ferris Scott, Phelps; hospital steward, James M. Smith, Penn Yan. Company B : Captain, H. H. Hopkins. Company F: Captain, Aaron J. Cook; first lieutenant, Fred P. Cook. Company I: Captain, Edward Cole; second lieutenant, Luther Meeker.
The muster-in roll of the regiment, by companies, is as follows :
Company B .-- Hiram T. Hewitt, captain ; Hanford Struble, first lieutenant ; George W. Waddell, second lieutenant; R. G. Bacon, orderly ; James M. Shoemaker, second ser- geant; George Beebe, third sergeant; Le Grand Terry, fourth sergeant; Myers T. Webb, fifth sergeant; Anson A. Raplee, Byron Beam, Charles Smith, Leroy Green, David Griswold, Perry W. Danes. James H. Coons, John Debolt, corporals. Privates : Henry N. Armstrong, Samuel S. Benham, Alfred Brown, Charles W. Bush, Andrew Bradley, Henry F. Buckley, Joseph Conklin, George W. Chamberlain, Daniel Cook, Foster P. Cook, Richard Chapman, Charles Chambers, William H. Chambers, Harmon O. Chambers, John Clark, George Coons, Joseph B. Clark, William B. Davis, David Dunham, James M. Egerton, Alvin B. Eaves, James S. Ellis, Charles H. Elwood, James E. Foster, George G. Fulkerson, Luidla C. Foster, BenjaminGrace, Alfred Griswold, Charles W. Gabriel, Myron A. Guthrie, Samuel Headley, Albert Headley, Alexander
1 Life of Jefferson Davis, with a Secret History of the Confederacy, page 496.
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P. Houghtailing, Freeman L. Hilligrass, Francis L. Hall, John L. Headley, David Houghes, Volney S. Haff, John Kean, John H. Knapp, George Katterer, Jerome B. Lefaver, Thomas H. Little, Elisha Lackey, Warren McDuffee, Theodore Marsh, John Morrison, Samuel Minard, Andrew Morrison, Adam S. Miller, Theodore J. Murray, Thomas E. Raplee, Charles F. Rentz, Ira H. Robinson, Charles F. Ross, Charles Shick, Lyman A. Stoll, Peter G. Swarts, Charles M. Swarthout, James M. Smith, Thomas J. Strait, Squire V. Straway, Mason Spink, Samuel R. Tennant, George R. Tulbs, James Tuttle, John H. Tymerson, Nelson E. Woodrub, James M. Witter, George M. Winans. Musicians, Stephen K. Hallock, Edward A. Tennant.
Company F .-- Harvey R. Gardner, captain; Melvin D. Wilson, first lieutenant ; Aaron J. Cook, second lieutenant ; William S. Vorce, orderly ; Nathaniel H. Green, first sergeant ; Frank C. Fairchild, second sergeant ; William H. Kelsey, third sergeant ; Deroy J. Harkness, fourth sergeant; Robert Mills, John Earl, William S. Huie, Charles W. Peters, William N. Reddout, James M. Gates, Charles G. Van Ness, David Criss, corporals; Philip A. Walthein, jr., and Henry A. Sayre, musicians ; Ezra Prouty, wagoner. Privates : James G. Ansley, George A. Ansley, Jonas Austin, George Broadbooks, Lansford O. Babbit, John W. Barnes, Hiram H. Barnes, John H. Benedict, George W. Benedict, Lewis R. Carvey, Owen Conway, John Conway, Albert W. Clark, William H. Cole, John J. Conley, William A. Carr, John S. Caton, William H. Crocker, Daniel Davis, Cludius Farr, George W. Fisher, Joseph C. Foster, George W. Ford, Jacob W. Fountain, William J. Fountain, William H. Francisco, John C. Fox, Francis Farr, Fred- erick Green, Benjamin Gleason, Lyman Gray, William Ginder, Nathan A. Goff, Lyman D. Green, Myron F. Hawley, William T. Hawley, John Headley, George W. Hall, Jer- ome S. Johnson, Jacob Korb, John J. Lawton, Alanson E. Lyon, William Lomereaux, Wilber Loomis, Daniel McGinniss, William M. Monagle, Ashley McDonald, George N. Miller, Lawrence McCumber, Willis Nicholson, Martin W. Parsons, Ezra P. Prichard, George H. Parsons, John Pierce, Jacob H. Radley, Josiah Reed, Barney C. Ross, Al- bert I. Sharp, Charles W. Stark, Theodore M. Stearns, Samuel Sailsbury, Joseph Sprague, John Slater, Loyal C. Twitchell, Manlius L. Taylor, Franklin Thompson, Nor- man Taylor, Jonathan G. Twitchell, Robert Underhill, Abraham R. Voorhees, William A. Wilson, William H. Wolvin, Levi Waters, Emory N. Wilson, George Wright, Isaac Wilkins, Thomas F. Wells, Charles E. Welles, Abram Youngs, jr.
Company I .- Martin S. Hicks, captain ; Morgan D. Tracy, 2d, first lieutenant ; John Cooley, second lieutenant; Edward Cole, orderly. Privates: George B. Alvord, Leon- ard M. Bohall, Robert Brown, Lucius B. Bennett, Walter W. Becker, Franklin Becker, Isaac D. Blood, Martin Butler, Isaac Benson, William B. Blouin, Stephen Coon, Lorenzo Capell, Lawrence Cooney, jr., Peter J. Conklin, Clark Castner, Ward Campbell, John Carr, James B. Crouch, Albert E. Dean, William A. Dunning, Patrick Duffy, Henry M. Dunbar, Jourdan Davis, William H. Fries, Peter Finger, Oliver M. Finger, William D. Frey, Edward L. Granger, George S. Gardner, James German, Abraham Houghtail- ing, Isaac Hounsond, Sidney House, William Huber, Benjamin F. Hood, Robert Holmes. jr., George Hillier, Luther S. Hayes, John J. Jackson, Caleb G. Jackson, Richard M. Jones, John Keating, Stephen H. Kitch, Dennis Lewis, Simeon Lackey, Damon Lay, Oliver F. Long, Charles C. Miller, William Matthews, Luther S. Meeker, Abraham
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Miller, Lewis B. Moon, Seeley E. Palmatier, John D. Poole, Lorenzo W. Pettit, Oliver Preestler, Andrew Phelps, Willie E. Pierce, John L. Potter, Otis B. Ryall, George Rob- ertson, Aaron D. Robertson, J. Harvey Randall, Jarvis W. Randall, Lewis B. Randall, Charles H. Reno, George Scofield, Gideon C. Spink, Isaac Spink, Luther Sisson, Alonzo F. Spears, Samuel Strong, David Sands, Philip L. Shaw, Daniel T. Shaw, Elizer B. Tears, Augustus Whitaker, David P. Wilcox, William Wright, Charles E. Willis, Charles W. Wheeler, Lemuel Wheat, Alva H. Wheat, William Welcher, John C. Youngs.
Company M, later Company C of the Forty-fourth Regiment .- Bennett Munger, cap- tain ; Eizer B. James, first lieutenant; Charles Kelly, second lieutenant; O. L. Mun- ger, first sergeant; R. G. Kinner, George E. Henderson, Samuel J. Powell, and John O'Neil, sergeants ; Harvey Ackley, Fred D. Hills, Robert F. Shipley, Charles Pelton, Matt Fitzpatrick, George W. Hobart, James Barron, and Elnathan Mead, corporals ; John T. Johnson and Sylvanus Eaton, musicians; James Powell, wagoner. Privates: William Adams, Edgar Adams, D. C. Bassett, Samuel Covell, Philo H. Conklin, A. J. Cole, William Criscadon, Thomas Donnelly, Stephen T. Dye, John Devlin, Cyrus H. Davis, James Dansenburg, William Elwell, George W. Francisco, Joseph H. Fletcher, Thomas Frunnman, Marion F. Graham, Emory C. Green, Josiah H. Gardner, Francis M. Grinold, AndrewA. Gidding, John K. Giddings, Peter Haines, Moses F. Hardy, William A. Herrick, Norman Harrington, Harrington Houghton, Peter H. Hibbard, Andrew J. Horton, George R. Hunter, James Kneeskern, J. H. Mandeville, Fred Mitchell John Mclaughlin, Elisha Moon, John McGough, John McBride, Richard McElligott, David O. Mapes, Philip Morse, William N. Norris, Lucius L. Osgood, William O'Neil, Richard C. Phillip, Alexander Perry, Clark Reynolds, George C. Raymond, Peter J. Strail, Reuben Sisson, Thomas R. Southerby, Hiram M. Squire, George W. Snyder, Albert Sturdevant, Jacob Stroup, Noah Shultz, William W. Smith, Myron Smith, Jacob Traber, C. W. Taylor, Patrick Taben, George W. Wing, Orrin E. Watkins, Al- bert W. West, Jerome Wheaton, Martin R. Westcott, Alden D. Whitney.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-NINTH REGIMENT N. Y. V.
Among the many regiments which during the war were furnished by the Empire State the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth New York Volunteers is entitled to prominence for the bravery and the patriotism that this command in several engagements displayed. The ten com- panies of infantry composing the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth were raised in the following places : Company A in Horseheads ; Com- pany B in Elmira ; Company Cin Hornellsville ; Company D in Dun- kirk; Company E in Buffalo; Company F in Penn Yan ; Company G in Buffalo; Company H in Elmira ; Company I in Newfield ; and Company K in Binghamton. The following were the field and staft officers of the regiment at the time of its organization on the 5th of
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April, 1864: Colonel, William M. Gregg ; lieutenant-colonel, Frank- lin B. Doty ; major, J. Barnet Sloan ; adjutant, George W. Cook ; quartermaster, Nathaniel P. T. Finch; surgeon, Joseph W. Robinson ; assistant-surgeon, William C. Bailey ; chaplain, Edwin A. Taft.
The One Hundred and Seventy-ninth, having been organized, was sent into the field by companies from the place of rendezvous at Elmira. Companies A, B, and C went on in April, 1864, and arrived in Balti- more on the 29th of that month. Companies A and C proceeded via New York city and Company B by the Northern Central Railroad, the three companies meeting in Baltimore. From there they went to Washington and encamped on Arlington Heights, opposite the city. They were here joined about the first of May by Companies D and E. Lieut .- Col. Franklin B. Doty also at this time reached the camp and assumed command. From Arlington, about the last of May, they pro- ceeded to White House Landing on the Pamunkey River, Va.
Company F, with Maj. J. Barnet Sloan, left Elmira on the Ist of June and joined the regiment at White House Landing. The One Hundred and Seventy-ninth remained here until June 10th, when it united with the Army of the Potomac at Cold Harbor while the battle of that name was going on. The regiment was attached to the First Brigade, Colonel Pierre of the First Division, General Ledlie of the Ninth Corps, commanded by General Burnside. The position in front of Cold Harbor was evacuated as the army moved down the Peninsula, the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment being the last to leave the skirmish line. The James River was crossed at Wilson's Landing and a forced march was made to the front of Petersburg, where the reg- iment arrived on the 16th. The Ninth Corps the same evening sup- ported the Second Corps as it advanced on the Confederate position. At 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the following day the Ninth Corps as- sailed the enemy's works. In this assault the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth lost half its number in killed, wounded, and missing. Maj. J. Barnet Sloan, of Yates County, while bravely leading his regi- ment in the charge, received a mortal wound. Capt. Daniel Blatchford of Company E was also killed and Lieut .- Col. Franklin B. Doty, Cap- tains Robert T. Stewart, of Company B, and William Bird, jr., of Com- pany D, were wounded. Capt. John Barton of Company C was pro-
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moted to be major July 14th in the place of Major Sloan, who died of his wound on the 18th of June.
It will be proper to here give some account of the young and gallant officer last named, who fell while in the service of his country. John Barnet Sloan was born in Penn Yan, January 17, 1839. In 1861, while a resident of New York city, he enlisted for two years in the Thirty- first Regiment N. Y. V., with the rank of first lieutenant. When the Thirty-first was ordered from an island in the harbor of New York to proceed to Washington some violent characters connected with this regiment refused to go, and it was only by the energy of Lieutenant Sloan and considerable coercion that a mutiny was prevented while they were passing through the city of New York. By this simple oc- currence was awakened in the minds of these desperadoes the most deadly hatred and revenge. Soon after they arrived in Washington one of them made a furious assault on the lieutenant. He defended himself and thrust his sword through the body of the ruffian, who died instantly. The companions of the soldier thus justly killed were more than ever incensed, and two or three days later another of the insur- gents rushed with musket and bayonet at Lieutenant Sloan, who, draw- ing a revolver, shot him dead. The lieutenant immediately surrendered himself and asked for an investigation. A court martial was appointed and after a patient hearing of three days acquitted him from all blame. General McClellan, to whom the verdict of the court had been sub- mitted for approval, asked "to see the young lieutenant who had been tried." When Lieutenant Sloan presented himself General McClellan remarked, " Lieutenant, you are acquitted ; you were born to be a sol- dier. I see that you have but one bar upon your shoulder ; you are worthy to wear two." The lieutenant shortly afterward received by order of the general a captain's commission. His comrades in the company in which he first enlisted, on learning that he was about to be assigned to the command of another company, petitioned that he might remain, and he became their captain. Shortly after the seige of York- town Captain Sloan's company with others was sent out to reconnoiter and became entirely surrounded by the enemy. After making a de- tour of about ten miles, and being all this while in the most imminent danger, Captain Sloan with a number of his men succeeded in reaching
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the Federal lines, but while approaching they were mistaken for Con- federates and a shell, which fortunately failed to explode, fell in their midst. At the battle of Gaines's Mill Captain Sloan engaged in single combat with a Confederate cavalryman, whom he shot through the head, but not until the trooper had severely wounded him in the foot. Although wounded he fought to the close of that day's conflict and during the next two days in the battles of Savage Station and of Fair Oaks. His foot had now become swollen to such an extent that he could not walk. Our forces were in full retreat, and Captain Sloan was following after as he best could on one foot, supporting himself by a stout stick cut from the White Oak Swamp. The Confederates were in plain view and he would have been taken prisoner had not the lieu- tenant-colonel noticed the peril he was in and sent his own horse with directions to mount and repair to the hospital. Here Captain Sloan's wound first received medical attention. He was then furloughed and coming North was appointed a recruiting officer, and for several months acted in that capacity. He afterward returned to his regiment and was at the storming of the heights of Fredericksburg, where he was again wounded, this time by a minie-ball in the leg. The Thirty- first Regiment was mustered out in May, 1863, and Captain Sloan, for meritorious services on the field of battle, received a commission as major, bearing date and back pay from the previous month of January. Major Sloan, having re-enlisted, left Elmira on June 1, 1864, with Com- pany F of his regiment, the One Hundred and Seventy- ninth. After his departure for the front a large number of the prominent citizens of Yates County, wishing to express their high appreciation of Major Sloan's military and soldierly qualities, assembled on June 4th in front of the Benham House in Penn Yan to witness the presentation of a beautiful sword, pistols, and belt which had been contributed by them as a testi- monial of the esteem and respect which they held toward the young and brave major. Hon. Darius A. Ogden made the presentation speech, and in behalf of Major Sloan, who was then absent in the field of duty, John D. Wolcott, esq., the district attorney of Yates County, responded and passed the beautiful implements of war into the hands of John Sloan, esq., who was to forward them to his son. The following is the inscription on the sword :
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" Presented to Major John Barnet Sloan, June 4, 1864, as a testimonial of their ap- preciation of services rendered in defence of our imperrilled country, and his energy in raising the 179th Regt. N. Y. S. V., by
" Hon. D. A. Ogden, Col. H. C. Robbins, S. C. Cleveland,
Wm. Watts,
F. Holmes, C. Hewins,
J. S. Jillett,
N. R. Long, L. O. Dunning,
Wm. T. Remer,
Geo. H. Lapham, F. E. Smith, And others.
" GEN. A. F. WHITAKER, Chairman."
Major Sloan received the published accounts of this meeting, but be- fore he received the beautiful and appropriate gifts themselves he fell in battle, June 17th, as before stated. His remains were brought to Penn Yan and there interred with due honors, the Rev. Frederick Starr, jr., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, preaching the funeral dis- course. The post of the Grand Army of the Republic at Penn Yan was named in honor of Major Sloan on its organization in 1869. He was married September 24, 1860, to Miss Mary A. Bradley, a sister of Lieut. David A. Bradley, of Company F, of the One Hundred and Seventy- ninth Regiment. Their children are Mary Barnet, the wife of Frank E. Wright, of Lewiston, Fergus County, Mont., and Martha E., the wife of the Hon. John D. Waite, of Utica, Fergus County, Mont.
Company G joined the command July 29, 1864. The explosion of the mine under a portion of the Confederate entrenchments occurred the next morning An assault was then made by the Ninth Corps, with the First Division taking the lead, and the One Hundred and Seventy- ninth lost in killed Major Barton, Capt. Allen T. Farwell of Company F, Capt. James H. Day of Company G, and wounded Lieut. B. L. Sex- ton of Company D. Fifty enlisted men belonging to the regiment were killed, wounded, and taken prisoners. Private John H. Carley of Com- pany F was among the killed. The One Hundred and Seventy- ninth did constant fighting in the trenches until the 19th of August. During the whole time the men were exposed to the most hair-breadth escapes and harrassing dangers, but the regiment escaped with only a few wounded. On the above date it moved round to the Weldon Railroad, which had been captured by the Fifth Corps, and which would have been lost again had it not been for the timely support of the Ninth Corps. The two corps, now united, attacked the Confederates and
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forced them to retreat a considerable distance. In this advance the One Hundred and Seventy-ninth Regiment had only three officers and fifty- six men fit for duty, so greatly had the officers and men been worn down by their duties in the trenches. The loss in the above engage- ment was small. On August 27th Albert A. Terrill, captain of Com- pany A, was made major in place of Major Barton killed.
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