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the Governor, who returned it to me with this indorsement:— Respectfully returned to General Schouler, with my thanks for the favor of reading this letter. I beg, through General Schouler, to send my grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Hale, of his benevolent conduct and sympathetic recognition of the noble qualities of Sergeant Plunkett. May God bless him for his kind heart! and may brave men, in the day of the weakness of the flesh, ever find such friends and helpers! J. A. Andrew. April 17, 1863. In regard to your request to have Sergeant Plunkett made a captain, I beg respectfully to dissent from your view of the case. Were I he, I would rather live and be known as Sergeant Plunkett, of the Twenty-first Massachusetts Volunteers, who lost both his arms at the battle of Fredericksburg when acting as color-sergeant, and whose bravery in action had received from strangers such recognition as you have shown, than to be made a field-marshal. I merely give this as my own impres