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If you have the least doubt on the subject I should consider it a great favor if you would order 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 there a few miserable specimens of humanity in the regiment, that are too lazy to do duty, & spend their time in grumbling, & that breeds 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 Robie reports that they are suitable for men to wear, we will of course get along with them 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 ones they are now wearing for winter wear. I feel very anxious indeed to have my regiment filled up as soon as possible.