Sunday, October 26, 2014

Governor Samuel J. Kirkwood to Colonel Marcellus M. Crocker, November 19, 1862

Executive Office, Iowa,
Iowa City, Nov. 19, 1862.

Colonel: — It is with no ordinary feelings of pleasure and State pride that I congratulate your brave regiment on its courage and achievements at Corinth. Its devoted loyalty and attachment to the Union and the Constitution have been thus attested on the field of battle, where life was at stake, and the gallant bearing of your men in the face of death has proven them patriots as well as soldiers.

Accept for yourself assurances of my esteem and best wishes.

SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD.
Col. M. M. Crocker,
13th Iowa Infantry, Corinth, Miss.

SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 233-4

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