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It is perhaps my own fault. I did not 
communicate to you every little point I hap-
opened to join. You will see by reference 
to the book that the service at Gettysburg
was of far more account than had been
made of it here in Maine.
These things I know are more
inadvertencies. I under stand are not more
in a [week?] so complicated and difficult as yours.
I refer to my thing position
you observe. I was recommended in April
for a full Major leave. That recommendation
was formally endowed by Meade and Grant, and
like others before me only [dropp?ed] at Washington,
When the army broke up Meade and Grant made a 
particulate nomination which I was assumed 
would be favorably acted on. But the gentlemen
at Washington had other news.
The [regmt? ] has  [ ].
Very truly
Your [ ] set.
J. L. Chamberlain
I never had but four days proper "leave of absence" during 
my service. At all other times when not in the field, I have 
been ordered away for treatment of wounds and c, or on duty
by order of the War [ ].
I never shirked field duty. J.L.C.