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Head Quarters 2nd Regt Maine [?} March 9th 1862

Dear Sir.

Your report[?] has just come to hand and allow me to say in the words of the poet that it is a big [underlined] thing [underlined] and as for Errors, I wonder that under all the change of scene the roar and din of battle and the croaking of busybodies at home, that you have been able to create a work of so huge dimensions. Please remember me to all friends of mine in Augusta also to your lady and Mr. Fenno [?]. Tell the lady if she together with [fou _?_y] will come out and stop with me a few days that the [S_?_] blockade now in existence at Augusta will vanish from your mind The Maine 2nd is Small, but they are not negligent when visited [?] by any of their Maine friends. By the way, please remember me to Col n Harding [?] tell him I am a peculiar Cuss but my heart has not moved from where it was [ '__?___inally] located Centerville is being rapidly reinforced and the Waterloo of America, is about to come off a [report?] of said Waterloo as far as Maine is concerned, I think you need not fear to receive, Tell