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notice, the best[?] quality will cost three dollars each. May we indulge the hope of haveng [having?] new Rifles & new Rucksacks? We need these[?] very[?] much indeed
Gus[?] Scott desires me[?] to recruit my[?] Rgt[?] to one thousand men [?] upwards[?]. I need about three hundred new[?] men. I was informed at the Department today that they would send[?] a man to Bangor I[?] muster[?] that number into the service as soon as they were enlisted. My [?] inform me, that number can be raised for this regt[?] in a very[?] few days if you will authorize it which I have no doubt you will do.
Mr Sam’l W. Hoskins of Oldtown [Old Town] would like to assist in raising the men, & he would take these[?] on to join the Reg’t