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I send you a Morning Report of this day which
will give you some idea of the Brigade--22nd
Maine was raised by Col Senater Wilson and
went to Hollis Hill a year ago last fall with
1200 men. 25th N.Y. was recruited principally
at 5 points by the notorious Col. Kerrigan
[ ] of Michigan joined our Brigade last June
with nearly app men--118th Penn. [at a ?]
[Compton Heights] in Sept last with 1000 [ ]
this regiment [118 Maine?] had about 140 killed when
we were driven across the Potomac
[ ] Shepardtown, so [ ly] just
after the battle of Antitum
Though our regiment is put down at
352 as present strength, we have proba-
bly but few if any more than 200 men
fit for active duty in[ ] of battle ex-
cept those detailed for trans[ ] [ ]
This I judge in about a few average with
the other regiments. The men in our
regiment generally feel that they have
done about their share of fighting and
are anxious to go home and yet they
all have [ ] and true, and if again
called to the contest will I doubt not
fully sustain. Their former reputa-
lion and manifest a spirit [ ]
need be, equal to that of the 300 [ ]
[ ], whose memory is [dist?]