Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . Edward Townsend, First-Lieutenant Leonard , Second-Lieutenant Jerry McClair, Second-Lieutenant Henry M. Fieldof the Thirty-sixth U. S. C. T., sent forward at the same time, [tenderedhowever, at various times] to these headquarters, alleging that the good ofthe service will be promoted if their resignations are accepted. [The reasongiven was, believing that the good of the service under the present commander ofthe regiment would be promoted/ etc.] The or
Wearing the blue in the Twenty-fifth Mass volunteer infantry with Burnside's coast division, 18th army corps, and Army of the James . Edward Townsend, First-Lieutenant Leonard , Second-Lieutenant Jerry McClair, Second-Lieutenant Henry M. Fieldof the Thirty-sixth U. S. C. T., sent forward at the same time, [tenderedhowever, at various times] to these headquarters, alleging that the good ofthe service will be promoted if their resignations are accepted. [The reasongiven was, believing that the good of the service under the present commander ofthe regiment would be promoted/ etc.] The order then goes on to recite the causes of complaint substantially, after which, it is stated that the commandingGeneral fails to see anything in the conduct of the regimentalcommander which should give cause to any right-minded patri-otic officer to resign, prefacing this insinuation against thepatriotism of these young men, by an assertion that they hadresigned in the face of the enemy, -when in fact, there wasno enemy, except unarmed prisoners of war, within scores ofmiles of Point Lookout. The order terminates a very partial. ^^ jfe^
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