In Camp near Falmouth

January 6^th 1862[sic]

 

Colonel

                        You no doubt ere this have received communications from several jealous Officers in relation to your Official Report to the Governor.

 

            The object of the present is to inform you that I do not belong to that class & in no way or manner will I help to increase the present ill feeling that exists among the Officers in the Regiment.

 

            I will be candid and say this however, that I have never felt so bad concerning anything in my life as I do about the "Roll of Honor". That I did my duty I am satisfied of, but as you / were near me from the time we formed until we marched away from the field, I think that some of my acts were not favorable in your eyes.

 

            Do not for one moment include me in the clique of those who are making trouble.

 

            I did my duty as I understood it, and am satisfied.

 

            With renewed expressions of my kind regard

 

I remain

Respectfully

Joseph P. Robinson

 

Col F. J. Parker

            Boston

 

[endorsement]

 

[torn away]     P. Robinson

                        6 1863.

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