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Castine June 10th 1861 Dear Sir I read nothing better from my son Charles and he is very conscious of his dis charge. He has not been able to Drill since he has been at Was hington he says the Climate does not agree with him and he thinks he cannot live there 2 months. he does not find fault with but one of the Field officers about Liquor and he did not want me to say anything about that as he writes me in his Last Letter (so please keep that to you -r self) for if they found out that he wrote anything about it they might use him up for it I do not want whence[?word] him obliged to stay there when he is sick and discontented when