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Iowa Governor and Adjutant General correspondence, 1862-1865

1862-02-04 Page 2

you please, give this matter your early attention, We need the men very much as at present we have not over thirty fit for duty.  I am also advised that there is a recruiting officer of the same place for the Regular Army, who is endeavoring to persuade the men to leave Sergt. Folsome & go with him, telling them he has means of transportation with him &c.
Now I consider such a proceeding entirely wrong and unfair, and don't see why Sergt. Folsome is not furnished with means of transportation, the men are an expense where they are, and as I have already stated are very much needed here.  Mr. Folsome also advises me that there are five more who will enlist when he gets means of transportation, he has been waiting now for nearly a month, for papers, which it seems to me is not doing justice to our Company.
I write you thus fully believing that if you give the matter your attention, the papers will be forthcoming.
Sergt. Saml. Folsome's address is "St. Charles City Floyd Co. Iowa"
We leave in the morning for Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, where some five thousand Rebels are entrenched, expect the Seventh will have another opportunity to face, & defeat the enemy
Very Respectfly Your Obt Servt
Robt G Reiniger
Letters addressed to me, at Cairo will reach me.

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you please, give this matter your early attention, We need the men very much as at present we have not over thirty fit for duty. I am also advised that there is a recruiting officer of the same place for the Regular Army, who is endeavoring to persuade the men to leave Sergt. Folsome & go with him, telling them he has means of transportation with him &c. Now I consider such a proceeding entirely wrong and unfair, and don't see why Sergt. Folsome is not furnished with means of transportation, the men are an expense where they are, and as I have already stated are very much needed here. Mr. Folsome also advises me that there are five more who will enlist when he gets means of transportation, he has been waiting now for nearly a month, for papers, which it seems to me is not doing justice to our Company. I write you thus fully believing that if you give the matter your attention, the papers will be forthcoming. Sergt. Saml. Folsome's address is "St. Charles City Floyd Co. Iowa" We leave in the morning for Fort Henry on the Tennessee River, where some five thousand Rebels are entrenched, expect the Seventh will have another opportunity to face, & defeat the enemy Very Respectfly Your Obt Servt Robt G Reiniger Letters addressed to me, at Cairo will reach me.