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Sebec June 9/62 Hon. [ ] Permit me to address you on a subject which I think will be if carried out an adv- antage to the army. My brother in law John L. Lovejoy was here yesterday from East Corinth to get me to write you asking it as a great favor to let his Son Charles L. Lovejoy of Co. A. Second Regt. come home and [ ] for the 16th Regt. Charles has said nothing about it but his father and mother and others are anxious for it. You know that Co. A was the Bangor Light infantry all [ cked] and smart fellows. His friends wanted him not to go in the co as a private but go in another Regt and get a commission, as they said he was fit for captain. He would not [ ] to them and went as a private. He has since been made a corporal and Sargent