Camp At Nineveh, Near Front Royal,
June 24, 1862.
I don't think I have ever mentioned in any of my letters
anything about the Third Wisconsin regiment. We have camped alongside of it now
since the last of March. It is, without exception, the best regiment we have
ever seen, leaving out our own; the men are in good discipline, and the officers
are gentlemen. For about a month, most of us of the Second have boarded at
their mess-table; it is a very pleasant one. Colonel Ruger sits at the head. He
is one of the finest gentlemen I know, a graduate of West Point. If we had a
few more such regiments as this, our army would be very different from what it
is now.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 70
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