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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.