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From the Daily of Thursday, 29th.

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    MAJOR WHITSITT.--We are pleased to see our long time friend R. E. Whitsitt appointed upon the Governor's staff with the rank of Major. He is deserving, and will do credit to his new position.

    Among those who were the fortunate recipients of favors in the shower of military commissions, we are glad to see numbered Captains Marion, Sopris, Anthony and Maile, and Lieutenants Roath and Buell.

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    COMPANY D.--Capt. Downing is rapidly filling up his company. Lieutenant Roath has gone to Central City, and will also visit Gold Dirt, to recruit for Co. D. He is doubtless the best drill officer in the Territory, having gained considerable celebrity while a member of Ellsworth's Chicago Zouaves in the early days of their history.

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    QUARTERMASTERS DEPARTMENT.--S. H. Moer, who has been appointed quartermaster of the 1st Colorado Regiment, is one of the most active business men in the Territory, and has entered with diligence upon his duties. J. H. Dudley is his assistant, and J. S. Filmore lends his aid as clerk of that department, and is also the commissioned paymaster of the regiment. All three are competent and well qualified to fill ther [sic] several positions.

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    PROMOTIONS.--We suppose that in no country, and at no time in the history of the world, were military promotions as rapid as now in the United States. Even out here, where a little while ago we thought we were scarcely noticed, the ladder is rapidly climbed. Captains Slough and Tappan were scarcely warm in their new uniforms, before--presto change--the former is dubbed Colonel, and the latter Lieut. Colonel, and all the other officers in their companies advanced one grade. Our military looking friend, Ned Wynkoop, stepped at once from a Second Lieutenantcy to the Captaincy of his company; and we may here remark, none are better fitted for their positions, than is Ned for the one he now occupies.


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Unknown, "Promotions," Weekly Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, 4 September, 1861, page 4.

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