Saturday, January 8, 2022

Co. B. 13th Regiment.

Extract from letters written by Captain Duncan to his wife

We have read a letter from Cap. Duncan to F. W. Johnson of this place, dated Sept. 21st in which he regrets his inability to record a battle with [plosions?]  victories &c.

He says he has the best company in the Regiment any way you have a mind to regard it—he has more men, better men, and the men are better drilled than any in the reg.; and he intends, if he has the ability, to keep it in the pride of the Col. and his staff, and the envy of all others.  We hop his highest expectations will be realized. Those who know the Company have no fears as to what will be its record on any battlefield.—ED.

[The bottom of the newspaper is torn off and the rest of this letter is missing.]

– Published in The Union Sentinel, Osceola, Iowa, Saturday, October 18, 1862, p. 2

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