The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-20
NOTICE.
Letter from Company Is, First Reni-
lnent, to Harlow MclntIre.

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To the Etitor 81. Pant Fioeer:
AS you lately published letter from
Harlow McIntire, wherein he affects to
speak our opinions, we, the undersigned
comprising all except five of the company
members now with the regiment request
that you publish the following
HARLOW McISTIRE:
Sir-A few weeks ago We heard that
you had obtained your discharge from the
service of the United States, on the score
of disability. The next we hear of YOU
is, that you are, or are to be, sergeant in
the battery now organizing in Minnesota.
The next-we have just read an article in
the St. Paul Pioneer, of the 18th inst.
signed ''Harlow McIntire, Company B,
First Minnesota
You have presumed upon your late con-
nectlon with US, to speak upon matters in
controversy We wish it to he distinctly
understood that while we are in the army,
We do not wish to be drawn into any con-
trOversy between the Saltwater Messen-
ger and Capt. Mark W. Downe Wenow
inform you that we repudiate yon as a
mouth-piece for orr opinions.
You close Your communication with
paragraph belittling our losses at Antietam.
You know as we'll as we, that in that fight
we lost ten men out of the thirty eight who
wen. into it-Over twenty-six per cent.
| You, who were so near that battle and not
| in it, affect to think our loss tritling We,
who passed through that storm of lead and
iron, think it only too heavy When we
read that paragraph of your letter, we
thought of two families who had each lost
son and brother, brave comrades of ours
| We thought of the sorrow OF these rea-
tives, OF the void in their homes, of a nat
ural desire for sympathy in their aifliction.
You turn to them with the comfortable as
surance upon your lips, that ether loss
was but ttco traps in the battle-stOrm Of
Antietam.
That a lawyer who had naught but
sneers tor us when we offered ourselves to
our country, should pen such letter, does
not surprise us; but that you should affix
to it your signature, filled us with amaze
ment for a moment. but we soon looked
upon it as another illustration OF what Il
man will do to be dressed in little brief
authority
We have no hard feelings toward you.
We can but pity you when we see you sell
yourself SO cheap.
We close with the request that hereafter,
when you are celled upon for your sigma
ture. you will omit $50 B, 1st Minneso-
ia
Corporal John Stevens
Private Charles ii Cove
= Rufus g. blanchard
Sergeant L. B. Nckerson
Private F. L. McKnsic
Corporal Edwin Wells
Musician Andrew Connolly
Private James Ceary
do Albert SeberS
do John L. Croft.
do William F. Bates,
do John N. Darnes
do Frit;tlia Martz,
do j. 7. SchoeubCck
do d. johnson.
do Peter Emerson,
do Z. 4. Nysteadt
do Jacob NJ. Henry.
do William A. Morgan,
do Andrew Martz
do August kpnig.
do Morris w. Erhaldt,
do Joseph \. Fenner,
do Frederic BerndS
do George Arnold,
do Albert Coplaiza.
do Bartholm Cargiet,
Corporal \. Hebenstret
Private Charles Hannah
Sergeant Frederic Cromc,
Private Hcnricl Guoernan
do !Adolph c. Hopes,
do William A. Ancher,
do L. W. Snow.
No. Of Comply B with Reviment. .........3 3?
FIRST MINNEsoTA REGIMENT
FALMOUTH, Va, Feb. %, 1861