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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
of Cavalry. If your Excellency will be kind enough to direct the proper Department to send all necessary receipts ^ to Mr. B. so that he may draw it for the use of my wife, I shall esteem it a very great favor. I ex- pected to have visited Maine + Drawn it myself- but, since my liberation I have not had time- + my wife now needs the money.
I join my Regiment at
once- returning with received ardor to the service of my county, + of my adopted State. I have the honor to be Very Respectfully John F. Mines Chaplain, 2d Maine Regt.