. . department. The period of my official connection with you, though brief, has beeneventful. At Rocky Face, Resaca, Adairsville, Kennesaw, Icar1creek and a score of lesser engagements, you hav« rivaled the glory fyour earlier achievements, Your patience, discipline and soldierly con-duct in privation, your heroism on the field—beyond all praise—have wonthe admiration of your commander. I cannot sever the relation which has existed between us during theseeventful months—made memorable by mutual endurance and peril, andhallowed by th
. . department. The period of my official connection with you, though brief, has beeneventful. At Rocky Face, Resaca, Adairsville, Kennesaw, Icar1creek and a score of lesser engagements, you hav« rivaled the glory fyour earlier achievements, Your patience, discipline and soldierly con-duct in privation, your heroism on the field—beyond all praise—have wonthe admiration of your commander. I cannot sever the relation which has existed between us during theseeventful months—made memorable by mutual endurance and peril, andhallowed by the memory of brave and generous comrades who have fallen—without profound regret. But in parting with you in obedience to orders,my strongest feeling is that ui pride that 1 have had the honor to com-mand such troops. JOHN NEWTON, Brigadier-General, Volunt< 1864.] 619 i ft», Mfc JOSEPH CONRAD,COLONEL, FIFTEENTH MISSOURI, BRIGADIER-GENERAL, COMMAND-ING THIRD BRIGADE, SECOND DIVISION, FOURTH (OKIS. 62C THE SIXTV-FOTRTH AT Will: [October,. The command of the division was assigned to Y>\general George D, Wagner, formerly colonel of the FifteenthIndiana. He used to speak of his soldiers as my people. On the 5th of October the Sixty-fourth was temporarily di-vorced from the brigade, being ordered to Whitesides, a stationmidway between Bridgeport and Chattanooga. It relieved aNew York regiment, whichleft for Atlanta to rejoin theTwentieth corps to whichit belonged. The colonelof the New Yorkers was aGerman, of military expe-rience in his own country,who had come to the UnitedStates to observe our meth-ods of carrying on headquarters werefitted up in elaborate style,entirely eclipsing in theirappointments anything inthe experience of such mi-gratory people as those ofthe Sixty-fourth. He hadguns and hounds for hunt-ing, and lived in Brown did notoccupy these quarters, greatas was the temptation to doThey were too farfrom where it was necessary
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