Note 54 — Chapter XXVI
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The following recommendation was sent forward for Colonel Barnes’s promotion:—
“Headquarters Third Division, Ninth Army Corps, } September 13, 1864. }
“Captain John C. Youngman, A. A. Gen., Ninth Army Corps.
“Captain: I have the honor to forward Brigade Commanders’ lists of recommendations for brevet.
“I beg permission to add my own recommendation in favor of ... Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph H. Barnes, Twenty-ninth Massachusetts, lately commanding brigade, First Division, Ninth Army Corps, for distinguished gallantry and success in action, at Blick’s House, Weldon Railroad, resisting enemy’s attack on Ninth Corps’ right.
“Very respectfully, your ob’d’t serv’t, “(Signed) O. B. Willcox, Brig. Gen. Com’d’g Div.
“Official: W. V. Richards, Capt. and A. A. A. G.”