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Yes. sir. There were 150 refugees recruited at Camp Morton. in Indiana. Thomas Capps came over there and recruited them. and out of those 150 men they fbrmed Company A and half of another company. When those men got back Strickland was not there. If he had been there and claimed his muster I suppose lie would have got it. He said to me that lie could have been mustered as lieutenantcolonel. but he would not take that. If he had been there and had been mustered as lieutenantcolonel. Mr. Capps would have been mustered as major. but Strickland was not there and Capps was mustered as lieutenantcolonel and served and received his pay as lieutenantcolonel. and the regiment had all the officers it was entitled to.