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�Time draged slowly along and many a mail was received with news of battles and hard marches, untill after Bankses retreat in West Va the summer of /62 where the 1st Me Cavalry was intirely broken to fragments by a surprise from the Reb Cavalry. Then I told my friends the time had come for me to take a part in the strife I received a warrant as Orderly Sergeant of the Militia of M [?] and [?[, from Major General of the First Division of Maine, James H Butler, of Bangor with orders to organise the Company and choose officers, I at onse proceeded and after that was completed, I went to inlisting men for the armey by first making out papers for myself on the 28th day of July 1862. | �Time draged slowly along and many a mail was received with news of battles and hard marches, untill after Bankses retreat in West Va the summer of /62 where the 1st Me Cavalry was intirely broken to fragments by a surprise from the Reb Cavalry. Then I told my friends the time had come for me to take a part in the strife I received a warrant as Orderly Sergeant of the Militia of M [?] and [?[, from Major General of the First Division of Maine, James H Butler, of Bangor with orders to organise the Company and choose officers, I at onse proceeded and after that was completed, I went to inlisting men for the armey by first making out papers for myself on the 28th day of July 1862. | ||
| − | I done what I could recruting forthe armey for about a week, and then started | + | I done what I could recruting forthe armey for about a week, and then started for Bangor to join the 18th Me Regt which was then being made up at that place. |
When I arrived at camp I found a brother and a brother in law that was going in that Regt as well as nearly a score of school mates and other acquaintenses. We had men on the ground from Aroostook Co that wer | When I arrived at camp I found a brother and a brother in law that was going in that Regt as well as nearly a score of school mates and other acquaintenses. We had men on the ground from Aroostook Co that wer | ||
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�Time draged slowly along and many a mail was received with news of battles and hard marches, untill after Bankses retreat in West Va the summer of /62 where the 1st Me Cavalry was intirely broken to fragments by a surprise from the Reb Cavalry. Then I told my friends the time had come for me to take a part in the strife I received a warrant as Orderly Sergeant of the Militia of M [?] and [?[, from Major General of the First Division of Maine, James H Butler, of Bangor with orders to organise the Company and choose officers, I at onse proceeded and after that was completed, I went to inlisting men for the armey by first making out papers for myself on the 28th day of July 1862.
I done what I could recruting forthe armey for about a week, and then started for Bangor to join the 18th Me Regt which was then being made up at that place. When I arrived at camp I found a brother and a brother in law that was going in that Regt as well as nearly a score of school mates and other acquaintenses. We had men on the ground from Aroostook Co that wer