...ott of the same regiment, my Aid-de-Camp, I am indebted for promptness in transmission of orders, for efficiency, and gallant services in action. I desire to express my thanks to Colonels Murphy, Ruger , Colgrove, and Andrews, to the officers and men generally of my command, especially to officers and men of battery M, whose skill and courage tended so much by their destructive fire to disconcert th...