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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
down to the time of their arrival at Harrison Landing. He is now at home only by the exigency of ill health & and is about to return to his command on the banks of the James River, He means to be present at the taking of Richmond, but would like to go in on horseback.
I write this unsolicited, as I first proposed the subject to him. If we are to have, as is now apparent five or six new regiments let me nominate him for a place in some one of them or elsewhere at a grade higher than his present.
Very truly
Albert W. Paine