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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
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Fort Corcoran 2nd Maine Regt Vol.
Sept. 24, 1861
My Dear Governor
Please find accompanying duplicate receipts for articles purchased for our Hospital, amounting to fifty nine (59) dollars, which amount I have paid and you will please transmit the same amount, at your earliest convenience, to R. S. Morrison Bangor, on whom I draw for the money expended as above. You will perceive that I have not purchased all the articles specified in the list sent you, as I have been enabled, by great effort, to get a part of them of U.S. variety [swords?]. I think I have made great improvement in the accommodations for the sick since I arrived here, but have incurred an unnecessary expense, and here in passing I will add that notwithstanding