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Fort Corcoran Arlington Heights Virginia Sepr 16/61
General Hodsdon
Dear Sir
Permit me to adress [address] a note to you in regard to myself, and will onely [only] tax your patience just to give you a statement of my case. At the call for men to protect Washington, I enlisted as a private in the old Bangor Light Infantry. I left Bangor a corporal, and was promoted to Sargent before we marched to Falls Church was at the Battle of Bull Run and tryed [tried] to do my duty and by over[?] exertion was nearly exhausted and have not been able to do but light duty until recently, thinking I should never be able to do my duty in our company, I was by my own