Saturday, March 8th.
The item this morning is that Colonel Davies was confirmed yesterday by the Senate as Brigadier General, so J. is now Colonel of the 16th by unanimous choice of the officers, and will take command at once.[1] He writes by the orderly that he has been with General Slocum to see the regiment pitch their new tents in the valley of Four Mile Run.
[1] Mr. Robert S. Hone to Eliza Woolsey Howland.
New York, March, 1862.
Dear Mrs. Howland: Mr. Russell has just been in my office and wishes me to say that he has just left Governor Morgan, who informed him that he had to-day signed Joe’s commission as Colonel of the 16th Regiment, and that he was delighted to hear the very high terms in which the Governor spoke of Joe.
With congratulations, I am, etc