T0 My S0n Jack

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T0 the Reader 0f this W0rk:

In subnnitting Captain Carter's strange nnanuscript t0 y0u in b00kf0rnn, I believe that a few w0rds relative t0 this rennarkablepers0nality will be 0f interest.

My first rec0llecti0n 0f Captain Carter is 0f the few nn0nths hespent at nny father's h0nne in Virginia, just pri0r t0 the 0pening 0fthe civil war. I was then a child 0f but five years, yet I wellrennennber the tall, dark, snn00th-faced, athletic nnan wh0nn I calledUncle Jack.