Greensborough Patriot (NC)

January 8, 1863

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William H. Reeves, of Co. E, 22^nd N. C. Regiment, having been published as a deserter, he requests us to contradict the statement. He says he has never been absent from his post but two weeks, since he entered the service, at the commencement of the war, and that he has been with his regiment in every engagement from the battle of Seven Pines to Fredericksburg, at which latter place he was severely wounded, and has returned home on a regular furlough.

[Transcribed by Sharon Strout]