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Head Quarters 2nd Maine Regiment Vols.
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To His Excellency                             Arlington Heights Va. Augt. 14, 1861
Israel Washburn Jr Gov. of Maine
     
We, the undersigned Field, Staff and Company officers
attached to the 2nd Maine Regiment humbly pray your Excellency
to use all possible and honorable means to Muster out of the 
United States Service and immediately order to Maine this
regiment for the following reasons - Viz -

1st Since the late engagement
at Stone Bridge, we have been unable to procure Shoes or
Clothing of any description, while other regiments and those
lately organized have been amply supplied.
                                         
 2nd Our encampment being
located in a unhealthy position, many of our men are
rendered unfit for service and require recruiting -

3d Our new recruits not
having been thoroughly examined, more than a quarter of 
them, on account of physical inability must be discharged.
                                         
4th In consequence of a
misconstruction long existing in the regiment in regards
to their term of service, fifty eight privates, and four non-
commisioned officers, have this day refused duty, and as in
consequence of said disobedience, have, by order of General
Scott Commander in-chief, been sent to the "Dry Tortugas"
in the Gulf of Mexico on "detached service" there to serve
until the Government deems it expedient to transfer 
them Northward.
                          
Owing to the foregoing reasons, we trust
our prayer may be granted - sincerely believing that the
above course will hereafter prove best for the interest and
welfare of Maine in the long "domestic struggle" now
before us.

               Chas W. Roberts              Lieut Col
               Geo. Varney                     Major
               Tho E Reynolds                Adj
               Aug C Hamlin                   Asst Surg-
               Cha. Lord                         Quarter Master
               Luther H Peirce                     "            "      Sergeant

               Danl F Sargeant               Capt     Co     H
               John Carroll                    Capt     Co     I
               Levi Emerson                   Capt      Co    E
              Daniel Chaplin                   Capt     Co     F
               John S Sampson              Capt     Co     D
               P. F. C. F[?]                     Capt      "       K
               C. W. Tilden                      Capt     Co     B

               Edward L. Getchell           1st Lieut     Co     H
              Ralph W Morse                  2nd  "           "       "
               A. B. Farnham                   1st Lieut    Co     G
               F. A. Garnsey                     2d    "         "        "
               Henry Casry                       1st   "         "        I
               Niles J. Sweeney               2nd   "         "       "
              James W. Adams                1st   "         "       C
              Albert G Fellows                  1st   "         "       K
              W W Sturtevant                   1st   "         "       D
              S R Kittredge                       2nd  "         "       "
              A P Wilson                           1      "         "       F
              E. S. Morrell                         2nd  "         "      C
              W. R. Carrier                   acting Lieut            C
              A L Cowan                          2nd                    K
              G. S. Brown                          2                       B
              R. R. Wiggin                   Lieut Comdg    Co   A
             James Dean                        2nd Lieut       "    "