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From DigitalMaine Transcription Project
Castine June 2d 1863
To Hon Abner Coburn Governor of Maine
Dr. Sir
Enclosed you will please find a letter from Hon F.L. Greendale a private in the [?] Me 2d Regt the letter will explain itself.
I can only say the writer is a young man of good character & respectably connected, and I have no doubt of the truth of his statement. I learn from volunteers who have returned that if the men are to [retain?] they