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To His Excellency Governor Washburn:
 
To His Excellency Governor Washburn:
 
         In pursuance [?] of the offer of reinforcements for the war, I ask if your Excellency desires and will accept my service.
 
         In pursuance [?] of the offer of reinforcements for the war, I ask if your Excellency desires and will accept my service.
     Perhaps it is not quite necessary to inform your Excellency who I am. I believe you will be satisfied with my antecedents. I am a son Brewer. For seven years past[?] I have been Professor in Bowdoin College. I have always been interested in military[?] matters and what I do not know that line, I know how to learn.
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     Perhaps it is not quite necessary to inform your Excellency who I am. I believe you will be satisfied with my antecedents. I am a son Brewer. For seven years past[?] I have been Professor in Bowdoin College. I have always been interested in military[?] matters, and what I do not know that line, I know how to learn [last clause underlined].
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    Having been lately elected to a new department here, I am expecting to have leave, at the approaching commencement, to spend a year or more in Europe, in the service of the College. I am entirely unwilling, however, to accept this offer, if my Country needs my service ir exanoke gere,

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�Brunswick July 14 1862. To His Excellency Governor Washburn:

        In pursuance [?] of the offer of reinforcements for the war, I ask if your Excellency desires and will accept my service.
    Perhaps it is not quite necessary to inform your Excellency who I am. I believe you will be satisfied with my antecedents. I am a son Brewer. For seven years past[?] I have been Professor in Bowdoin College. I have always been interested in military[?] matters, and what I do not know that line, I know how to learn [last clause underlined]. 
    Having been lately elected to a new department here, I am expecting to have leave, at the approaching commencement, to spend a year or more in Europe, in the service of the College. I am entirely unwilling, however, to accept this offer, if my Country needs my service ir exanoke gere,