Co. D, 39th Iowa Volunteers.

This Co. left this place on Wednesday Sept. 23d for quarters at Des Moines, and with them went the prayers and well wishes of many a sad heart.  We are personally acquainted with the officers and most of the privates that belong to this company, and it is not enough to say of them that they will render a good account of themselves hereafter. The officers are gentleman, have souls, and are proud of their men.  The privates, so far as we are acquainted with them, are high minded patriots, moral and many of them pious.

The resolution passed by the company since they left us [which may be seen in Mr. Starback’s letter in another column] will be a source of satisfaction to their many relations and friends at home, as well as the assurance which I received while paying them a hasty visit on Tuesday last, that the privates all love their officers.  This is as it should be and as we hope it will continue to be.  We can have no better evidence than this that they will succeed in whatever they undertake.  God be with them, is the prayer of every human heart.

Below are the names of the officers as furnished me when they left.  Mr. Oldham (formerly Editor of the “Courier,”) is now Sergt. Major.

I have not learned who takes his place as 2d Sergt but I think it is David Johnson, who was next below him in office.

COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.
Captain	L. D. BENNETT.
1st Lieutenant,	Wm. T. MATTHEWS.
2nd Lieutenant,	C. CARTER.
NON COMMISSIONEND OFFICERS.
1st Sergeant,	G. PIKE.
[torn] Sergeant,	T. R. OLDHAM.
[torn]	DAVID JOHNSON.
[torn]	J. L. MILLARD.
[torn]	ABLE CHANCE.
[torn]	THOMAS TRENT.
[torn]	[J]AMES DENNEY.
[torn]	[torn]T HAMILTON.
[torn]	[torn]N HARPER.
[torn]	[torn] [G]ARDNER.
[torn]	[torn] [B]LACK.

[The bottom of this article is diagonally torn from the upper left to the lower right. The rest of the article is missing.]

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