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of my visit to Augusta.

I hope your Excellency will be as disturbed as I am at these reports and contradictions which are so embarrassing and injurious to me.

I do not know any way in which I am to blame for them, and I only hope that at some time I can overcome their mortifying effect by actual service in the field.

I am persecuted with applications and propositions, but I urge all I see to enlist at once in the first Regt they can find.

We had a good meeting Saturday, and the effects of it are very evident in this slow town.

Very truly Your Excellency's obdt. servt. J.L. Chamberlain

Brunswick, Me. July 22, 1862

Chamberlain, J.L.

Says he is not responsible for certain rumors in circulation