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386 THE MAINE BUGLE.
told me they could always tell when there was going to be a fight, they would see
Lieut. Palmer skipping around here, there and everywhere, and laughing and in good
humor. That is about the truth. I did not put on much style but I showed the boys
who the officer was as soon as the fighting commenced—always in front
ROYAL VOLUNTEERS.
H. M. Williams, Capt. First Bucks R. V., The Square, Wolverton, Bucks, Eng., writes
In the copy of the Maine Bugle just received, to which I have the honor of being
a subscriber, I found the enclosed coupon. I am very much interested in the Bugle
and should like to become a subscriber to the Pictorial History of the War. I
enclosed Post Office Order 13 S, (;^2.92), and shall be glad if you will kindly send me
the six parts already issued, and the remainder as published. I send you by the same
post a copy of the calendar issued by the Oxfordshire Light Infantry, to which regi-
ment the volunteer battalion to which I belong is linked. I thought this might be of
interest to you, and beg that you will please accept it from me. The representa-
tive group of Bucks Volunteers consists of members of my company.
camp PENOBSCOT,
C. P. Clayton, of Taopi, Mower Co., Minn., Co. L, First Maine Cav., writes
I enclose two dollars to pay for the Bugle what 1 am in arrears, and the balance in
advance. I would like to have met with the comrades at their annual reunion, but I
am a great distance off. Tell any of the members of the old regiment that I often
recall them and the times we had in Camp Penobscot when we were raw soldiers, and
if any of them think I did not jump the fence around the old camp as many times that
winter as any other man in the First Maine, let them ask Capt. Vaughan, as he was in
our company.
the pride of my heart.
Isaac Shields, of Hodgdon, Me., Co. E, First Maine Cav., writes
I wish to say to you that the Bugle is the pride of my heart and I hope to receive
them just as often as I can, and I will pay for them. I am broken down and can do
but little work
all right.
Lieut. H. B. Sawyer, Auburn, Me., Co. K., and G, Eighth Me. Inf., writes:
The Bugles come along all right; am very much pleased with them. Please find
enclosed one dollar for payment of same. •
first under fire.
M. S. Berry, of Co. H, Eleventh Maine Inf., of Brownville, Me. writes
I claim Company H was the first company of the Eleventh Maine to be under fire
from rebel guns. It was while on picket at Mcintosh's Landing, James River, in
April, 1862. It was a pretty warm day, and the tide being out most of the boys were
out on the flats digging shell fish. The writer was back a few rods from the river try-
ing to replenish his commissary department by getting a " cullord lady " to hake him
some biscuits, while Lieut. S., in command of the company, was lying in the shade