. Recollections of the Civil War : with many original diary entries and letters written from the seat of war, and with annotated references . and for meritorious conductin the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. . One regiment of this division is now on detached service at Winches-ter, Va., and no recommendations for that regiment have been forwardedby the commander of the brigade to which it belongs, the Thirty-seventhMassachusetts Volunteers, and I have the honor to make the followingrecommendations, as the facts referred to are personally known to George L. Montagu
. Recollections of the Civil War : with many original diary entries and letters written from the seat of war, and with annotated references . and for meritorious conductin the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864. . One regiment of this division is now on detached service at Winches-ter, Va., and no recommendations for that regiment have been forwardedby the commander of the brigade to which it belongs, the Thirty-seventhMassachusetts Volunteers, and I have the honor to make the followingrecommendations, as the facts referred to are personally known to George L. Montague, commanding Thirty-seventh Massa-chusetts Volunteers, to be colonel by brevet for distinguished gallantryin the battle of Spottsylvania Court-House, Va., May 12, 1864, in whichbattle he was severely wounded. Capt. Mason W. Tyler, Thirty-seventh Massachusetts Volunteers, to be major by brevet for distin-guished gallantry in the battle of Winchester, Va., September 19, 1864,in which battle he was wounded. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Frank Wheaton, Brevet Major-General, Volunteers.(O. R., xiii., pt. 3, p. 1028-9.). CAPTAIN MASON W. TYLER. From a photograph taken in December, 1864. Petersburg 319 In a letter dated Warren Station, January ig, 1865, ^^wrote to his brother Henry: Colonel Edwards has been relieved from the commandof the brigade, after spending a twenty days leave withhis wife. He is now in the West. He has been brevettedbrigadier-general, but hesitates some, I understand, aboutaccepting it. I have been quite busy the last day or two building on anaddition to my house. I have now got quite a grand house,a real palace, so to speak. It is fifteen feet long and somesix and a half broad, five feet high at the sides, and sevenin the centre. Two of us occupy it. It grieves me verymuch, however, that we cannot have a fireplace, becausewood is so scarce in this neighborhood that it is impossibleto get enough to supply a fireplace. Therefore we have tosatisf
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