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before it was mailed.

   I don't think it is possible

to make decent knapsacks from these we have, by any alterations that can be made in them.

    I knew very little about the

necessary outfits for a Regiment before leaving Bangor, but what I have witnessed in that time since, has caused me to wonder how human ingenuity would have invented the Mishapen things our men are compelled to wear on their backs, and call them knapsacks. My men are not disposed to find fault, but they feel very badly indeed about their knapsacks, and I assure you they would be better soldiers if they could have good new knapsacks in the place of the ones they now have. Still if we