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Prof. Chamberlain Brunswick July 22.
Brunswick July 22d 1862
Hon. Israel Washburn:
I beg your Excellency will understand that these mortifying reports in regard to my appointment, did not come from me in any way that I can imagine.
To Genl. Howard alone, in a private conversation, I stated that though it was scarcely probable that a new. Regt. would be raised, yet in case it should be, I had received the impression that you thought favorably of my having it, and I asked the Genl. what I had better do in the mean time.
To others I had, of course, every notion to maintain a discrete silence, as to the result