.NjE.MTYzMw

Pleased with the late review of the several regiments and corps of the 2. Brigade, the Brigadier General cannot refrain to express his approbation of the soldierly equipment, performances and appearance so respectably displayed on the occasion. And he is constrained to remark, that among the select companies he has observed none to excel, and for the time they have been organized, none to equal the martial appearance & discipline of Herrick's troop of cavalry. He hopes the laudable exertion of Capt. Herrick, his officers and men, will excite an emulation in the other volunteer companies of the Brigade -- particularly those of the artillery.

While the Brigadier-General is happy in noticing at the late musters throughout the Brigade, the general improvement of officers and soldiers in discipline and appearance, he sincerely regrets that any instance should have occurred in the close of the business, to mar the beauty of the scene: that a single company should in an unguarded moment have so far forgotten their obligation to the laws, the bonds of their regimental relation, their deference to their superior officers, and their respect for themselves, as to have committed so flagrant a breach of all order and discipline -- that of mutinously breaking the line when solemnly formed for review and discipline. He cannot persuade himself, that this company could have thus disgraced themselves, if they had duly considered the consequences; nor is he willing to believe, that any officer could be so lost to all sense of honor and duty as to have connived[?] at, much less encouraged