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Fort Corcoran Arlington Heights Virginia Sepr 16/61
General Hodsdon
Dear Sir
Permit me to adress a note to you in regard to myself, and will onely tax your patience just to give you a statement of my case. At the call for men to protect Washington, I enlisted as a private in the old Bangor Light Infantry. I left Bangor a corporal, and was promoted to Sargent before we marched to Falls Church, was at the Battle of Bull Run and tryed to do my duty and by over exertion was nearly exhausted and have not been able to do but light duty until recently, thinking I should never be able to do my duty in our company, I was by my own