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the detachment off Tuesday evening to rejoin the regiment, and must follow just as soon as I can. . . . . My regiment is perhaps seventy miles distant,—a long way in this bebothered State. The great thing which I regret in staying here in Washington on regimental business is, that my regiment may have been engaged in the fighting, and I not there,—a source of great trouble and regret to me. I shall go to them just as soon as I can. He was met half-way by tidings of loss. Boonsborough, Maryland, Monday night, September 22. . . . . I have to-day, while on my way from Frederick hither (sixteen miles), learned the fate of my regiment. We have lost, in two battles, nearly every commissioned officer, killed or wounded. The Colonel's left arm is gone at the shoulder, and the Lieutenant-Colonel is shot through the neck. Captain Bartlett is killed, and Captains Andrews and Lathrop are the only ones fit for duty in the regiment. I believe my men (I shall, till the Lieutenan