Headquarters Second Mass. Inf'y,
Near Alexandria, May 23, 1865.
I have been sorely exercised for the last few days on
account of learning, when I joined my command, that I had been mustered out of
service by order of the War Department, on account of being absent from the
effects of wounds received in action.* Yesterday, through the kindness of
General Slocum, I obtained an interview with General Townsend, Adjutant
General, and presented to him an application for the rescinding of the order;
it had received pretty heavy endorsements from all my superiors, and was at once
granted. The veteran regiments are probably to be retained, for the present at
any rate; they will be filled up to the maximum by consolidation.
Everybody is scrubbing up for the review to-morrow, which
will be a great affair. I am sorry you are not coming on. I am getting along
very well with my wound.
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* Immediately after the surrender of Lee's and Johnston's
army, the War Department issued a General Order honorably discharging every
officer then absent from his command on account of wounds or sickness.
SOURCE: Charles Fessenden Morse, Letters Written
During the Civil War, 1861-1865, p. 213-4
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