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ambulances for the sick will be sufficient brushes, sponges +c had better be sent with them, as there is or [?word] delay in procurring those things here + all the harness I have seen here are much inferior to our Maine harnesses. The harnesses should be very similar to those used by our lumbermen for logging. It is very desirable indeed that the teams should be furnished us soon as possible in now that we may be able to move without any outside assistance.

    Col. Nilds informed me that the fourth

Rgt bro't on some tents for me, but I have just seen their Quartermaster + he informs me he has no tents for us.

    We cannot procur here such tents as

we need. We must have a large hospital tent with a fly - also a guard tent capable of holding forty to fifty men. The Quartermaster needs two store tents. The only tents the Genl have on hand are small ones, not fit for the purposes above specified. We ought to have