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A Trait of Santa Rosa.

--Captain Peak, of the McFarland (Miss.) Rifles, who was engaged in the affair of Santa Rosa, says in an account published in the Vicksburg Citizen:

‘ I know of one instance where a small Irishman of a quaint turn shot down a fellow with a nice coat upon him. He deliberately took the coat off him and transferred it to his own back with as much evident composure as he would have tried a fit in a furnishing tailor's shop. This last incident is mentioned in order to say, that under the cuff of the fellow's coat sleeve were found the ace and knave of spades — a significant commentary upon his character.

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