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most common pain-killer, more than a few men in Massie’s company surely “required” it.
From his book, Massie appears to be an earnest, capable man, keeping detailed accounts over a period of several years. Family recollection says that he was a small man, married to a large woman. Mrs. Spalding said she had always heard that he’d sit with his foot in his wife’s shoe, twirling it around to tease her about her big feet.
After the war he managed his farm near Washington. He was able to graft five types of apples on to the same tree. In Mrs. Spalding’s home in Flint Hill is a beautiful cherry desk that Captain Tom made. Of unusually fine workmanship, it shows that the man whose fine handwriting and fastidious accounting appear in the ledger was a perfectionist in other ways.
Two cryptic notes found in the ledger might tell a story of intrigue within the company. Scrawled upside down across a neatly written page of accounts is the warning, “Trust him not. He is fooling you.” And on a page facing one that was roughly torn out is a part of a sentence: “I would respectfully ask to be transferred from Co. G. Capt. Waldens. . .” Perhaps Captain Massie was showing a less educated soldier how to request a transfer into the Washington Greys.
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