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If you have the least doubt on the subject I should consider it a just [?] if you would [?] a thorough investigation of the whole management of the regiment from the day we left Bangor to the present. If we cannot show as clean a record as any other regiment from new England (of the same age) I will resign immediately & return home. The whole trouble about rations has grown out of the fact that [?] a few[?] miserable Specimens[?] of humanity in the regiment, that are too lazy to do duty, & spend their time in grumbling, & that heeds[?] more or[?] less[?] discontent, still I have had no serious difficulty – and don’t[?] intend to have on the, on the s[?] of rations. I will not bore you any more about the Rucksacks – if Dr Robin[?] wants[?] that they are[?] suitable for men to wear, we will of course[?] get[?] along[?] with these[?] or buy new ones ourselves. Our men need their pants very much indeed. I can get blue blouses from the Gen[?] gov’t[?], but cannot get any pants. As a matter of economy, the men had better have the thin[?] pants & save the one they are now wearing for winter wear. I feel very anxious indeed to have my regiment filled up as soon as possible.