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Head Quarters 2nd Regt Maine Volunteers March 9th 1862

Dear Sir.

Your report has just come to hand and allow me to say in the words of the poet that it is a big thing and as for Errors, I wonder that under all the change of scene the roar and din of battle and the croaking of busybodies at home, that you have been able to create a work of so huge dimensions. Please remember me to all friends of mine in Augusta also to your lady and Mr. Fenno. Tell the lady if she together with yourself will come out and stop with me a few days that the [S_?_] blockade now in existence at Augusta will vanish from your mind The Maine 2nd is Small, but they are not negligent when visited by any of their Maine friends. By the way, please remember me to Col. Harding tell him I am a peculiar Cuss but my heart has not moved from where it was [?] located Centerville is being rapidly reinforced and the Waterloo of America, is about to come off. a report of said Waterloo as far as Maine is concerned, I think you need not fear to receive, Tell