To-day we receive
orders to hold ourselves in readiness to move at a moment's notice. Lieutenant
Colonel Babcock having, from exposure and care in the late battle become
prostrated upon a soldier's sick bed, leaves the regiment to-day on a hospital
steamer for Paducah, Kentucky. All regret to see him leave, for we can illy
spare an officer who has stood by the regiment so faithfully in hours of gloom
and darkness. The regiment is now commanded by Major Rowett, and our faith is,
that he, like the brave Babcock, will lead us through storm and tempest to
victory and glory.
SOURCES: Daniel Leib
Ambrose, History of the Seventh Regiment Illinois Volunteer Infantry,
p. 43-4
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