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Octo. 28^th 1863.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.                                        

Executive Department.                                              

Boston, Oct. 27, 1863.                       

 

Col. Francis J. Parker

Late of the 32^d Regt Mass. Vol. Infy.

Colonel:

               His Excellency Governor Andrew wishes me to ask you in relation to a question, arising in the Regiment you lately commanded. It appears that Lucius H. Warren was commissioned 2d lieutenant, July 31, 1862, and Norman F. Steele, Aug. 14, 1862; Warren being then senior of the two. Steele was promoted 1^st Lieut. Oct. 21, 1862, and Warren, Dec 14, 1862, thus reversing the order of rank as to those two; but Steele being sick, Warren was first mustered in as 1^st Lieutenant. There being now a vacancy as Captain, the Colonel recommends Steele on account of seniority, declaring both to be meritorious officers; and Col. Sweitzer, commanding the Brigade, endorses / the recommendation. His Excellency now wishes to know, if there is any reason in your mind, for going back of the promotions to 1^st lieutenant, and placing these officers in the same relative order of rank, as to each other, which they held when second lieutenant; in other words,--which of the two is now the best entitled to promotion.

 

I am, very respectfully, Yours,

William Rogers

Major & Asst. Adjt. Genl.

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