Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1862-11-13
[From tie Harrisburg Telegraph
Interesting Correspondence.

The following correspondence fully explains
itself 1t is of such eloquent interest, how
ever, that we cannot refrain from expressing
the pride we feel in thus transmitting it to the
people through the columns of the Telegraph.
The Eghty.fourth regiment is among the no
bleSt in the list of gallant organizations that
now carry the flags of The Commonwealth in
the van of the battles for the Union. In re-
turning its old flag 10 the state authorities by
whom it was presented, it gives back the rec,
ord of service that will live i'll history while
the name of Pennsylvania represents free
State The flag which The gallant and lament
ed Murray presented to the Eighty fourth, is
consigned to the Governor as the emblem
around which the heroes of this regiment raj
lied in some of the severest battles of the cam
paga This flag is presented TO the Governor
as a memento for his personal preservation as
an emblem ofthe glory of regiment to whose
success he added so much officially, which he
can carry with him when he retires from the
Guberna torial chair and keep near himself
while he lives as one of the glorious links
which binds bis name to the great events OF
the present. In thus honoring the Chief Mag
israte of the State, the. war worn survivors
OF the Eighty fourth have done themselves
equal honor 1t speaks well for their fealty
as citizens and their valOr as soldiers and We
believe that this is the first presentation of the
kind that has yet been made TO any of the
Governors of the States The flag in question
is perfectly rddled with bullets, and though
much torn, strange to write, not Il Single star
IN its azure feld has been marred By 6Wltet
We have published no correspondence in re,
laton to any of our regiments, so full of in
terest and honor as that which follows between
the officers of the Eighty forth and Governor
| CURTIN -
HARRISBURG October 80, 1862.
To A. G. CURTIN, Governor of Pennsylvania
GOVERNOR We, the undersigned officers
of the S4th r. giment of Pennsylvania FGlun
| teers, felt proud Of the honor conferred upon
US by our commander and comrades when We
present TO you in ther behalf the national flag
which was presented to the Regiment by Cot
Wm. G. Murry Oh its departure from the
| State.
Side by side with the State flag, which we
returned to AdiutaHt. Gen. Russell, this Aag
has passed through every conflict in which the
Regiment has participated together they
have fired the hearts of the weary and worn
soldiers who marched and fought beneath them;
and together they have dropped over the
graves of those who fell in their defence and
support We have no doubt when the war is
over and your brave legions return, bat that
other Aags will be presented to you that will
outrival this for the flags born by the brave
sons of Pennsylvania like the white plume in
the helmet of Navarro, have been guiding
stars on the battlefield to lead the brave to
the paths Of danger and of glory. You will
preceive that though pierced by thirty bullets,
shattered by a SHE'LL and torn by the rough
storms of three campaigns under Lander,
Shields and Pope, not star is injured And
as it is with these stars, may it be with the
States they repreSent-when the storm of
civil war subsidies, may they be as free from
treason poison as those stars are from treason
powder.
| 1t is the desire, Governor, of the Regiment,
that you preserve this flag in memory of the
gaeut hero who gave up his life in its defence
and for Pennsylvania honor, and of his brave
soldiers who fell with him and under his sue
cessors for the same glorious cause.
Accept it too as testi lony Of the feelings
of esteem and admiration that the brave men
Of thu Saith entertain for the Governor of their
State
We have the honor to subscribe ourselves
very respectfully,
| YOUR 0BEDIENT SERVANTS,
| Captains WALSH, MILES and DURNo.
| Committee of Presentation