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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