Headquarters Sedgwick's Division,
Sumner's Corps,
Harrison's Landing, Virginia,
July 11, 1862.
Brigadier-General S. Williams,
A.A.G.:
I have the honour to request that the name of Major R. F.
Halsted, formerly of the 40th New York Volunteers, be forwarded to the Governor
of the State of New York for an appointment to a Colonelcy. I have known
Halsted for nearly a year, and have had abundant opportunities for becoming thoroughly
acquainted with his character. I have no hesitation in saying that I have not
met, in the service, with a more thorough gentleman or a man of better
principles and character, while I regard him as being, both by natural
qualification and by his acquirements, one of the best volunteer officers I
have known. I consider him peculiarly fitted to enforce respect and discipline
as commander of a regiment, and to govern it justly and wisely. The service
requires just such men at the head of the regiments.
I have the honour to be, with much respect,
Your most obedient servant,
John Sedgwick,
Brigadier-General
Volunteers.
SOURCES: George William Curtis, Correspondence of
John Sedgwick, Major-General, Volume 2, p. 73
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