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Time draged slowly along and many a mail was received with news of battles and hard marches, untill after Bankses retreat in West Va the summer of '62 where the 1st Me Cavelry was intirely broken to fragments by a surprise from the Reb Cavalry. Then I told my friends the time had come for me to take a part in the strife.

I received a warrant as Orderly Sergeant of the Militia of Masardis and [?] from Major General of the First Division of Maine, James H. Butler, of Bangor with orders to organise the Company and choose officers, I at onse proceeded and after that was completed, I went to inlisting men for the armey by first making out papers for myself on the 28th day of July 1862.

I done what I could recruting for the armey for about a week, and then started for Bangor to join the 18th Me Regt which was then being made up at that place.

When I arrived at camp I found a brother and a brother in law that was going in that Regt as well as nearly a score of school mates and other acquaintenses. We had men on the ground from Aroostook Co that wer