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As the want of the Arms & train has alone detained Genl. Potter I presume we will start very soon after their arrival. | As the want of the Arms & train has alone detained Genl. Potter I presume we will start very soon after their arrival. | ||
I forward by this mail an application to be relieved from duty here in time to join my Regt. before it starts, & in leaving the Comd. of this post, I feel it my duty to give you a few points in regard to it, which will at least have the [[illegible]] of being distributed. | I forward by this mail an application to be relieved from duty here in time to join my Regt. before it starts, & in leaving the Comd. of this post, I feel it my duty to give you a few points in regard to it, which will at least have the [[illegible]] of being distributed. | ||
Capt. Hill [[?}} is next in rank to myself & will of course assume Comd. (unless otherwise ordered from Hd. Qrs.) He has a very excellent company (due to an enviable 1st Sergt) but is less fitted to command than any officer I have ever served. He has been a gentleman & can at pleasure assume the outward manner of one; but he is capricious, overbearing, tyranical, a hopeless drunkard, with a most brutal temper. To add to this catalogue a still worse & more deprading | Capt. Hill [[?}} is next in rank to myself & will of course assume Comd. (unless otherwise ordered from Hd. Qrs.) He has a very excellent company (due to an enviable 1st Sergt) but is less fitted to command than any officer I have ever served. He has been a gentleman & can at pleasure assume the outward manner of one; but he is capricious, overbearing, tyranical, a hopeless drunkard, with a most brutal temper. To add to this catalogue a still worse & more deprading trait, I believe him to be dishonest. At all events there was a vast amount of stealing done while he was Comdg. Off. I think it would be most unfortunate, not only for the Officers & Men, but also for the service, to permit him to command a Post. | ||
Col Camp has arrived, & it is to be hoped the Q. M. Dept here may be put in proper shape, but in order to be so, it must be subordinate to the Post Commander. | |||
Revision as of 19:32, 6 August 2019
Fort Sedgwick C. T. April 29th 1867.
General
I learn that the arms for the 30th Infy have arrived at North Platte, & may be expected here in a few days. As the want of the Arms & train has alone detained Genl. Potter I presume we will start very soon after their arrival. I forward by this mail an application to be relieved from duty here in time to join my Regt. before it starts, & in leaving the Comd. of this post, I feel it my duty to give you a few points in regard to it, which will at least have the illegible of being distributed. Capt. Hill [[?}} is next in rank to myself & will of course assume Comd. (unless otherwise ordered from Hd. Qrs.) He has a very excellent company (due to an enviable 1st Sergt) but is less fitted to command than any officer I have ever served. He has been a gentleman & can at pleasure assume the outward manner of one; but he is capricious, overbearing, tyranical, a hopeless drunkard, with a most brutal temper. To add to this catalogue a still worse & more deprading trait, I believe him to be dishonest. At all events there was a vast amount of stealing done while he was Comdg. Off. I think it would be most unfortunate, not only for the Officers & Men, but also for the service, to permit him to command a Post. Col Camp has arrived, & it is to be hoped the Q. M. Dept here may be put in proper shape, but in order to be so, it must be subordinate to the Post Commander.