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Book Title: History Of The 82nd Indiana Volunteer Infantry

CHAPTER XIII.
RECOMMENDATIONS.

  Letter from Gen. Absalom Baird, our division commander from October, 1863, to
the close of the war:

                              WASHINGTON, D. C, March 24, 1893.

Capt. Alf. Gr. Hunter, Versailles, Ind.:

  MY DEAR SIR—I have just received your letter of the 18th inst. telling me that
you have already commenced writing a history of the Eighty-second Indiana
Volunteers. I am very glad to hear this, as the regiment has a record inferior
to none, and deserves that its gallant deeds should be recorded. While under my
command it never failed to perform every service required in a manner alike
honorable to itself, and to the State of Indiana which sent so many splendid
regiments into the field, and to the military service of the country. I have
just received a fine history of the Seventy-fifth Indiana, and I wish every
regiment had its story as well recorded.

                              Very Respectfully,
                                    A. BAIRD, 
Brevet Major-General, Late Commander Third Division, Fourteenth Corps.


  Letter from John B. Turchin, our brigade commander from October, 1863, to
August, 1864:

                          RADOM, WASHINGTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS, )
                                             July 18, 1893.   )

To Whom it May Concern:

  The Eighty-second Indiana Infantry Volunteers were added, with a few Ohio
regiments, to my brigade at the time of the re-organization of the Army of the
Cumberland, at Chattanooga, in 1863. My brigade was denominated as the First
Brigade of Third Division (General Baird, commanding), Fourteenth Army Corps.
The Eighty-second participated in the Brown's Ferry expedition, and Missionary
Ridge battle, while at Chattanooga, and at Resacca, and many other skirmishes
and engagements during the Atlanta campaign, as far as Chattahoochee River
(within six miles of Atlanta), when, on account of sickness, I was obliged to
leave the brigade. During the above time, and under my command, the
Eighty-second. Indiana attended strictly to duty, ready to carry out orders,
steady under fire, and reliable in emergencies. It behaved gallantly during the
assault of Mission Ridge, and was noticed in other engagements as a body of
brave men and devoted patriots.

                             JOHN B. TURCHIN, 
Late Brigadier-General United States Volunteers.


  Letter from Colonel Moses B. Walker, our brigade commander one year:

                             KENTON, OHIO, March 20, 1893.
Alf. G. Hunter, Late Adj't Eighty-second I. V. I.:

  DEAR COMRADE—Yours of the 18th is before me. Of your regiment (Eighty-second)
I have the most pleasant recollections and highest esteem. During the time I had
the honor to command the old First Brigade I had no more reliable regiment.
Prompt, steady and brave; though often tried in extreme dangers, the regiment
never failed in duty. Of the officers I have the most pleasant recollections. As
officers they were gentlemen, and as gentlemen they could scarcely fail to be
good officers. I could say nothing in praise of the field and staff of the
regiment which would not be merited. To those of them who are living please
carry my kindest regards. Let the dangers we passed together and the privations
we suffered bind us to each other as comrades and brothers.

                         Yours very truly,
                                  M. B. WALKER,
                                    Colonel U. S. A.


  Letter from John W. Free, late Major of the Thirty-first Ohio Veteran
Volunteer Infantry, which was brigaded with us from the latter part of
September, 1862, to the close of the war;

                               NEW LEXINGTON, OHIO, June 2, 1893.

Friend Alf. G. Hunter, Late Adj't Eighty-second Indiana Volunteers:

  MY DEAR SIR—Write up and put in shape all the good things that can be said for
the Eighty-second Indiana. No braver men ever faced the foe; no more patient men
ever endured the tiresome marches we made. You can not say too much for me in
their favor. I served in the same brigade with you from September, 1861, to
January, 1865; was then compelled to leave the service on account of injuries
received, and must say the Eighty-second Indiana never failed to do all duties
assigned it in a brave and soldierly manner.

                        Yours truly,
                                JOHN W. FREE,
     Late Major Thirty-first Ohio Vet. Vol. Infty.


  Letter from J. B. Foraker, ex-Governor of Ohio, and late Captain in the
Eighty-ninth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, which was in the same brigade from October
9, 1863, to the close of the war:

                                 CINCINNATI, O., July 5, 1893.

  I served in the same brigade with the Eighty-second Indiana Regiment from
October, 1863, until the end of the war. I had good opportunity to learn the
character of the regiment and to know what it accomplished. It is, therefore,
from personal knowledge that I speak when I say, without qualification, that
there was no braver or more gallant regiment in the Union army. The
Eighty-second was always ready for any service and could always be depended upon
to faithfully discharge any duty

                               J. B. FORAKER.


  Letter from John S. Cameron, late Adjutant Thirty-eight Ohio, V. V. I., which
regiment served in the same brigade with us for one year:

                                    EASTPORT, OHIO, April 10, 1893.

Adjt. A. G. Hunter, Versailles, Ind.:

  DEAR SIR AND COMRADE—I am in receipt of your recent communication, and in
reply thereto take pleasure in saying that my thoughts often wander back to
those "by-gone days " when the Eighty-second Indiana Volunteers and
Thirty-eighth Ohio Volunteers were brigaded together and encamped upon the sunny
fields of Dixie. I can yet hear the stentorian voice of Morton C. Hunter
(Colonel) calling "Eighty-second Indiana fall in!" A call they were not slow to
obey. And whether the call was to the fatigueing march or to deadly conflict it
was always obeyed with alacrity and enthusiasm. And although its record may not
be as bloody as some regiments can show, it always well and faithfully performed
the duties which the vicissitudes of war assigned it. The "make-up" of the
regiment—both officers and privates—I always considered as first-class; men who
knew just how to meet a friend or foe. Is Colonel Hunter still living? I shall
always cherish the most kindly and brotherly feeling for my old comrades of the
Eighty-second Indiana; they possessed the necessary staying qualities that fit
men for the performance of duties, and that alone should be enough to endear one
soldier to another. Hoping you success in your work, I am

                     Very truly yours in F. C. and L.
                             JOHN S. CAMERON,
                    Late Adjt. Thirty-eighth O. V. V. I.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

HISTORY OF THE EIGHTY-SECOND
Indiana Volunteer Infantry,
ITS ORGANIZATION, CAMPAIGNS AND BATTLES.

WRITTEN AT THE REQUEST OF THE MEMBERS

BY
ALF. G. HUNTER,
Late Adjutant.

INDIANAPOLIS:
WH. B. BURFORD, PRINTER AND BINDER.
1893.


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