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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
down to the time of their arrival at Harrison Landing. He is not at home only by the (?) of ill health & and is about to return to his command ion the banks of the James River, He means to be (? ) at the taking of Richmond, but would like to go in on horseback. I write this unsolicited, as I first (?) the subject to him. If we are to have, a is now apparent five or six new regiments let me nominate him for a place in some one of them or elsewhere at a grade higher than his present.
Yours truly Albert W. Paine