THE SEVENTEENTH NEW YORK REGIMENT
To the Editor of the Herald
Headquarters, Seventeenth Regiment N.Y.V.
Camp Sedgwick, Near Alexandria Oct 2, 1861

Your special correspondent from Washington, under date of September 30, in your issue of October 1, does the Seventeenth regiment of New York Volunteers, which I have the honor to command, great injustice by excusing the Fifteenth and Eighteenth New York Volunteers from "acts of vandalism," and having the Seventeenth among the vandals. I received on Saturday night at eleven o'clock orders to march, to support "Arnold's Light Battery;" the regiment left camp with the battery at the appointed time, and never left it until the return to camp. Not a soldier left the ranks or entered a house during the entire day. Please correct the error of "your special correspondent," and oblige yours, etc.

H.S. LANSING
Colonel 17th Regt. N.Y.V.