How about our Brigadiers? You know I long ago recommended
Crocker, Dodge and Perczel and I yet think them among our best colonels as you
will find when they are tried. Dodge has been tried at Pea Ridge and has
turned out just as I expected. I think him one of the very best military men in
the State. Has Lauman been appointed? He acted manfully at Belmont and deserves
it. Tuttles charge at Donelson is one of the most brilliant of this or any
other war. I have been on the ground he charged over, and I believe that none
but Iowa troops could have done it. Vandever did nobly at Pea Ridge, so far as
I have learned, and all our colonels and all our men will do the same as they
get the chance.
Can't we get some more Brigadiers? What is the situation
about Washington generally? Don't things look more hopeful? Take time to write
me a long letter showing just how things stand. I thank you for your speech on
the navy and the gallant Foote. He is a man all over.
SOURCE: Henry Warren Lathrop, The Life and
Times of Samuel J. Kirkwood, Iowa's War Governor, p. 214
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