Commending Col. Thomas E. Chickering for his military skill and leadership, especially for his safe conduct of a train "of nearly a thousand wagons, embracing our whole transportation ... to New Orleans," in the Port Hudson campaign of 1863. "Unhesitatingly I can say that he is well qualified for higher duties and position than that he now so honorably fills."
Signed: N.P. Banks, M.G.C.
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